Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dk4vv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T18:34:36.588Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Non-Metrizable Uniformities and Proximities on Metrizable Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

P. L. Sharma*
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

In the literature there exist examples of metrizable spaces admitting nonmetrizable uniformities (e.g., see [3, Problem C, p. 204]). In this paper, this phenomenon is presented more coherently by showing that every non-compact metrizable space admits at least one non-metrizable proximity and uncountably many non-metrizable uniformities. It is also proved that the finest compatible uniformity (proximity) on a non-compact non-semidiscrete space is always non-metrizable.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

References

1. Alfsen, E. M. and O. Njåstad, Proximity and generalized uniformity, Fund. Math. 52 (1963), 253–252.Google Scholar
2. Gillman, L. and Jerison, M., Rings of continuous functions (Van Nostrand, Princeton, 1960).Google Scholar
3. Kelley, J. L., General topology (Van Nostrand, Princeton, 1961).Google Scholar
4. Naimpally, S. A. and Warrack, B. D., Proximity Spaces, Cambridge Tract in Maths., No. 59 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970).Google Scholar
5. Sharma, P. L., Compactification numbers (preprint).Google Scholar
6. Sharma, P. L., On p-classes of uniformities (preprint).Google Scholar
7. Reed, E. E. and Thron, W. J., m-bounded uniformities between two given uniformities, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 141 (1969), 7177.Google Scholar
8. Thron, W. J., Topological structures, (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1966).Google Scholar