# nLab weakly Lindelöf spaces with countably locally finite base are second countable

## Statement

Recall that a topological space is weakly Lindelöf if every open cover has a countable subcollection the union of which is dense.

###### Proof

Let $\mathcal{V}$ be a countably locally finite base. For each $x \in X$, there is a neighborhood $N_x$ meeting countably many members of $\mathcal{V}$. If $X$ is weakly Lindelöf, there is a countable $\{N_n\}_n$ which covers a dense subset of $X$. Then $\mathcal{U} = \{V\in \mathcal{V} \mid N_n \cap V \neq \emptyset\}$ is a countable basis for X.

### Implications

• a metric space has a $\sigma$-locally discrete base

• Nagata-Smirnov metrization theorem

• a second-countable space has a $\sigma$-locally finite base: take the the collection of singeltons of all elements of a countable cover of $X$.

• second-countable spaces are separable: use the axiom of countable choice to choose a point in each set of a countable cover.

• separable spaces satisfy the countable chain condition: given a dense set $D$ and a family $\{U_\alpha : \alpha \in A\}$, the map $D \cap \bigcup_{\alpha \in A} U_\alpha \to A$ assigning $d$ to the unique $\alpha \in A$ with $d \in U_\alpha$ is surjective.

• separable spaces are weakly Lindelöf: given a countable dense subset and an open cover choose for each point of the subset an open from the cover.

• Lindelöf spaces are trivially also weakly Lindelöf.

• a space with a $\sigma$-locally finite base is first countable: obviously, every point is contained in at most countably many sets of a $\sigma$-locally finite base.

• a first-countable space is obviously Fréchet-Urysohn.

• a Fréchet-Uryson space is obviously sequential.

• a sequential space is obviously countably tight.

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