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The point x is an interior point of S. The point y is on the boundary of S. In mathematics, specifically in topology, the interior of a subset S of a topological space X is the union of all subsets of S that are open in X. A point that is in the interior of S is an interior point of S. The interior of S is the complement of the closure of the ...
Each clopen subset of (which includes and itself) is simultaneously a regular open subset and regular closed subset. The interior of a closed subset of is a regular open subset of and likewise, the closure of an open subset of is a regular closed subset of . [2] The intersection (but not necessarily the union) of two regular open sets is a ...
A set (in light blue) and its boundary (in dark blue). In topology and mathematics in general, the boundary of a subset S of a topological space X is the set of points in the closure of S not belonging to the interior of S. An element of the boundary of S is called a boundary point of S.
For another example, consider the relative interior of a closed disk in . It is locally closed since it is an intersection of the closed disk and an open ball. On the other hand, { ( x , y ) ∈ R 2 ∣ x ≠ 0 } ∪ { ( 0 , 0 ) } {\displaystyle \{(x,y)\in \mathbb {R} ^{2}\mid x\neq 0\}\cup \{(0,0)\}} is not a locally closed subset of R 2 ...
In the following, represents the real numbers with their usual topology. The subspace topology of the natural numbers, as a subspace of , is the discrete topology.; The rational numbers considered as a subspace of do not have the discrete topology ({0} for example is not an open set in because there is no open subset of whose intersection with can result in only the singleton {0}).
A further generalization was found by J. W. Alexander, who established the Alexander duality between the reduced homology of a compact subset X of R n+1 and the reduced cohomology of its complement. If X is an n-dimensional compact connected submanifold of R n+1 (or S n+1) without boundary, its complement has 2 connected components.
The interior of every set except X is empty. The closure of every non-empty subset of X is X. Put another way: every non-empty subset of X is dense, a property that characterizes trivial topological spaces. As a result of this, the closure of every open subset U of X is either ∅ (if U = ∅) or X (otherwise).
The surface S is said to be boundary-compressible if either S is a disk that cobounds a ball with a disk in or there exists a boundary-compressing disk for S in M. Otherwise, S is boundary-incompressible. Alternatively, one can relax this definition by dropping the requirement that the surface be properly embedded.