The topology of the restriction of a metric is the restriction of the topology.

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I'm reading this proof of the following claim.

Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space and $(Y,d')$ a subspace of $X$. If $(X,T)$ is the topology induced by $d$ and $(Y,T')$ the typology induced by $d'$, then $(Y,T')$ is a subspace of $(X,T)$.

Proof:

Since $d'$ is the restriction of $d$, an open ball in $(Y,d')$ is the restriction of an open ball in $(X,d)$ to $Y$. Consequently a subset $O'$ of $Y$ is open in $Y$ if and only if, for each $y\in O'$, there is an $\varepsilon>0$ such that $B(y,\varepsilon) \cap Y \subseteq O'$. Let $$O=\displaystyle \bigcup_{y\in O'}B(y;\varepsilon).$$ Then $O$ is open in $X$ and $O'=O\cap Y$. Thus $O'\in T'.$ Conversely, if $O'\in T'$ then $O'=O\cap Y$for some $O\in T$. For each $y\in O'$ we have $y\in O$ and $O$ is open, so there is an $\varepsilon$ such that $B(y,\varepsilon)\subseteq O$. It follows that $B(y,\varepsilon)\cap Y\subseteq O'$ and hence $O'$ is open in $Y$.

Now, to show that something is a subspace one has to show that every subset is open if and only if it's of the form $O\cap Y$--or at least, that's how I understand it from the definition in my text. It seems that the second half of the proof is showing the "if" part, but I don't see how the first half shows the "only if".

Letting $O$ be open in $T$ doesn't seem to be an assumption at any point in the proof. I'm sure I'm wrong about that somehow, but could anyone clarify where this assumption is made?

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The proof starts with an arbitary $O \in T_{d'}$ (by which I mean the topology on $Y$ induced by $d'$, the restriction of $d$), and shows $O \in T'$ (where $T'$ is the subspace topology from $T$, the topology on $X$, which is induced by $d$). Then it takes any $O \in T'$, and shows it is in $T_{d'}$. So it shows the two inclusions, and $T' = T_{d'}$.

As $T'$ is by definition the subspace topology on $Y$, we are done showing that $d'$ ensures that $Y$ has the subspace topology.