陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「The Birkhoff-Kakutani theorem」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

A topological space is said to be metrisable if one can find a metric on it whose open balls generate the topology.

There are some obvious necessary conditions on the space in order for it to be metrisable. For instance, it must be Hausdorff , since all metric spaces are Hausdorff. It must also be first countable , because every point in a metric space has a countable neighbourhood base of balls , .

已知结果和反例

In the converse direction, being Hausdorff and first countable is not always enough to guarantee metrisability, for a variety of reasons. For instance the long line is not metrisable despite being both Hausdorff and first countable, due to a failure of paracompactness , which prevents one from gluing together the local metric structures on this line into a global one. Even after adding in paracompactness, this is still not enough; the real line with the lower limit topology (

However, there is one important setting in which the Hausdorff and first countability axioms do suffice to give metrisability, and that is the setting of topological groups :

证明或构造的主线

Theorem 1 (Birkhoff-Kakutani theorem) Let be a topological group (i.e. a topological space that is also a group, such that the group operations and are continuous). Then is metrisable if and only if it is both Hausdorff and first countable.

Remark 1 It is not hard to show that a topological group is Hausdorff if and only if the singleton set is closed. More generally, in an arbitrary topological group, it is a good exercise to show that the closure of is always a closed normal subgroup of , whose quotient is then a Hausdorff topological group. Because of this, the study of topological groups can usually be reduced immediately to the study of Hausdorff topological groups. (Indeed, in many texts, topological group

阅读时建议盯住的点

The standard proof of the Birkhoff-Kakutani theorem (which we have taken from this book of Montgomery and Zippin ) relies on the following Urysohn-type lemma:

Lemma 2 (Urysohn-type lemma) Let be a Hausdorff first countable group. Then there exists a bounded continuous function with the following properties:

值得单独记下的条目

• (Unique maximum) , and for all .
• (Neighbourhood base) The sets for form a neighbourhood base at the identity.
• (Uniform continuity) For every , there exists an open neighbourhood of the identity such that for all and .
• (Continuity) and are continuous on their domains of definition.
• (Identity) For any , and are well-defined and equal to .
• (Inverse) For any , and are well-defined and equal to . is well-defined and equal to .
• (Local associativity) If are such that , , , and are all well-defined, then .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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