nLab locally closed set

A subset AA of a topological space XX is locally closed if it is a closed subset of an open subspace of XX. Equivalently, every point in AA has a neighborhood UXU\subset X such that AUA\cap U is closed in UU.

A locally closed subset for the Zariski topology on an affine space over an algebraically closed field is called an (embedded) quasiaffine variety, and a locally closed subset for the Zariski topology on a projective space over an algebraically closed field is called an (embedded) quasiprojective variety.

category: topology

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