nLab compactum

Redirected from "compacta".

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Topology

topology (point-set topology, point-free topology)

see also differential topology, algebraic topology, functional analysis and topological homotopy theory

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In topology and analysis, the term compacta (singular: compactum) is used to refer to

or more generally to

The first usage is more common in the literature.

Slightly different from but closely related to either notion of compacta is that of:

A special case of compact Hausdorff spaces are known as

Analogously, the term local compacta (singular: local compactum) refers to

and more generally to

and the term paracompacta (singular: paracompactum) refers to

(noting here that metric spaces are already paracompact).

category: disambiguation

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