Locally finite collectionA collection of subsets of a topological space is said to be locally finite if each point in the space has a neighbourhood that intersects only finitely many of the sets in the collection. In the mathematical field of topology, local finiteness is a property of collections of subsets of a topological space. It is fundamental in the study of paracompactness and topological dimension. Note that the term locally finite has different meanings in other mathematical fields. A finite collection of subsets of a topological space is locally finite.
Recouvrement (mathématiques)Un recouvrement d'un ensemble E est une famille (X) d'ensembles dont l'union contient E, c'est-à-dire telle que tout élément de E appartient à au moins l'un des X. Certains auteurs imposent de plus que les X soient des sous-ensembles de E. Dans ce cas, les X forment un recouvrement de E (si et) seulement si leur union est égale à E, et une partition de E s'ils sont de plus non vides et deux à deux disjoints. Par exemple, pour E = {1, 2, 3, 4}, la famille (∅, {1, 2, 3}, {3, 4}) n'est qu'un recouvrement alors que ({1, 2}, {3, 4}) est une partition.
Pseudocompact spaceIn mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be pseudocompact if its image under any continuous function to R is bounded. Many authors include the requirement that the space be completely regular in the definition of pseudocompactness. Pseudocompact spaces were defined by Edwin Hewitt in 1948. For a Tychonoff space X to be pseudocompact requires that every locally finite collection of non-empty open sets of X be finite.
General topologyIn mathematics, general topology (or point set topology) is the branch of topology that deals with the basic set-theoretic definitions and constructions used in topology. It is the foundation of most other branches of topology, including differential topology, geometric topology, and algebraic topology. The fundamental concepts in point-set topology are continuity, compactness, and connectedness: Continuous functions, intuitively, take nearby points to nearby points.
Espace paracompactUn espace topologique est dit paracompact s'il est séparé et si tout recouvrement ouvert admet un raffinement (ouvert) localement fini. Cette définition a été introduite par le mathématicien français Jean Dieudonné en 1944. On rappelle qu'un recouvrement (X) d'un espace topologique X est dit localement fini si tout point de X possède un voisinage disjoint de presque tous les X, de tous sauf pour un ensemble fini d'indices i.
