Wallman compactification

In mathematics, the Wallman compactification, generally called Wallman–Shanin compactification is a compactification of T1 topological spaces that was constructed by Wallman (1938).

Definition

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The points of the Wallman compactification ωX of a space X are the maximal proper filters in the poset of closed subsets of X. Explicitly, a point of ωX is a family   of closed nonempty subsets of X such that   is closed under finite intersections, and is maximal among those families that have these properties. For every closed subset F of X, the class ΦF of points of ωX containing F is closed in ωX. The topology of ωX is generated by these closed classes.

Special cases

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For normal spaces, the Wallman compactification is essentially the same as the Stone–Čech compactification.

See also

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References

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  • Aleksandrov, P.S. (2001) [1994], "Wallman_compactification", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press
  • Wallman, Henry (1938), "Lattices and topological spaces", Annals of Mathematics, 39 (1): 112–126, doi:10.2307/1968717, JSTOR 1968717