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「245B, Notes 13: Compactification and metrisation (optional)」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

One way to study a general class of mathematical objects is to embed them into a more structured class of mathematical objects; for instance, one could study manifolds by embedding them into Euclidean spaces. In these (optional) notes we study two (related) embedding theorems for topological spaces:

Observe that any dense open subset of a compact Hausdorff space is automatically a locally compact Hausdorff space. We now study the reverse concept:

已知结果和反例

Definition 1 A compactification of a locally compact Hausdorff space is an embedding (i.e. a homeomorphism between and ) into a compact Hausdorff space such that the image of is an open dense subset of . We will often abuse notation and refer to as the compactification rather than the embedding , when the embedding is obvious from context.

One compactification is finer than another (or is coarser than ) if there exists a continuous map such that ; notice that this map must be surjective and unique, by the open dense nature of . Two compactifications are equivalent if they are both finer than each other.

证明或构造的主线

Example 1 Any compact set can be its own compactification. The real line can be compactified into by using the arctan function as the embedding, or (equivalently) by embedding it into the extended real line . It can also be compactified into the unit circle by using the stereographic projection . Notice that the former embedding is finer than the latter. The plane can similarly be compactified into the unit sphere by the stereographic projection .

Exercise 1 Let be a locally compact Hausdorff space that is not compact. Define the one-point compactification by adjoining one point to , with the topology generated by the open sets of , and the complement (in ) of the compact sets in . Show that (with the obvious embedding map) is a compactification of . Show that the one-point compactification is coarser than any other compactification of .

阅读时建议盯住的点

We now consider the opposite extreme to the one-point compactification:

Definition 2 Let be a locally compact Hausdorff space. A Stone-Čech compactification of is defined as the finest compactification of , i.e. the compactification of which is finer than every other compactification of .

值得单独记下的条目

• The Stone-Čech compactification , which embeds locally compact Hausdorff spaces into compact Hausdorff spaces in a “universal” fashion; and
• The Urysohn metrization theorem , that shows that every second-countable normal Hausdorff space is metrizable.
• Show that is a compactification of . ({\emph Hint}: Use Urysohn’s lemma and Tychonoff’s theorem .)
• Show that is the Stone-Čech compactification of . ({\emph Hint}: If is any other compactification of , we can identify as a subset of , and then project to . Meanwhile, we can embed inside by the Gelfand transform.)
• Show that is a compactification of .
• Show that is the Stone-Čech compactification of .
• Identify with the space of ultrafilters on . (See this post for further discussion of ultrafilters, and this post for further discussion of the relationship of ultrafilters to the Stone-Čech compactification.)
• Show that is a unital commutative -algebra (see Section 4 of Notes 12 ).

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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