# T1 space

In topology and related branches of mathematics, a T1 space is a topological space in which, for every pair of distinct points, each has a neighborhood not containing the other point.[1] An R0 space is one in which this holds for every pair of topologically distinguishable points. The properties T1 and R0 are examples of separation axioms.

Separation axioms
in topological spaces
Kolmogorov classification
T0 (Kolmogorov)
T1 (Fréchet)
T2 (Hausdorff)
T2½(Urysohn)
completely T2 (completely Hausdorff)
T3 (regular Hausdorff)
T(Tychonoff)
T4 (normal Hausdorff)
T5 (completely normal
Hausdorff)
T6 (perfectly normal
Hausdorff)

## Definitions

Let X be a topological space and let x and y be points in X. We say that x and y can be separated if each lies in a neighborhood that does not contain the other point.

A T1 space is also called an accessible space or a space with Fréchet topology and an R0 space is also called a symmetric space. (The term Fréchet space also has an entirely different meaning in functional analysis. For this reason, the term T1 space is preferred. There is also a notion of a Fréchet–Urysohn space as a type of sequential space. The term symmetric space has another meaning.)

## Properties

If X is a topological space then the following conditions are equivalent:

1. X is a T1 space.
2. X is a T0 space and an R0 space.
3. Points are closed in X; i.e. given any xX, the singleton set { x } is a closed set.
4. Every subset of X is the intersection of all the open sets containing it.
5. Every finite set is closed.[2]
6. Every cofinite set of X is open.
7. The fixed ultrafilter at x converges only to x.
8. For every subset S of X and every point xX, x is a limit point of S if and only if every open neighbourhood of x contains infinitely many points of S.

If X is a topological space then the following conditions are equivalent:

1. X is an R0 space.
2. Given any xX, the closure of { x } contains only the points that are topologically indistinguishable from x.
3. For any two points x and y in the space, x is in the closure of { y } if and only if y is in the closure of { x }.
4. The specialization preorder on X is symmetric (and therefore an equivalence relation).
5. The fixed ultrafilter at x converges only to the points that are topologically indistinguishable from x.
6. Every open set is the union of closed sets.

In any topological space we have, as properties of any two points, the following implications

separatedtopologically distinguishabledistinct

If the first arrow can be reversed the space is R0. If the second arrow can be reversed the space is T0. If the composite arrow can be reversed the space is T1. A space is T1 if and only if it's both R0 and T0.

Note that a finite T1 space is necessarily discrete (since every set is closed).

## Examples

• the open set O{x} contains y but not x, and the open set O{y} contains x and not y;
• equivalently, every singleton set {x} is the complement of the open set O{x}, so it is a closed set;
so the resulting space is T1 by each of the definitions above. This space is not T2, because the intersection of any two open sets OA and OB is OAB, which is never empty. Alternatively, the set of even integers is compact but not closed, which would be impossible in a Hausdorff space.
• The above example can be modified slightly to create the double-pointed cofinite topology, which is an example of an R0 space that is neither T1 nor R1. Let X be the set of integers again, and using the definition of OA from the previous example, define a subbase of open sets Gx for any integer x to be Gx = O{x, x+1} if x is an even number, and Gx = O{x-1, x} if x is odd. Then the basis of the topology are given by finite intersections of the subbasis sets: given a finite set A, the open sets of X are
${\displaystyle U_{A}:=\bigcap _{x\in A}G_{x}.}$
The resulting space is not T0 (and hence not T1), because the points x and x + 1 (for x even) are topologically indistinguishable; but otherwise it is essentially equivalent to the previous example.
• The Zariski topology on an algebraic variety (over an algebraically closed field) is T1. To see this, note that the singleton containing a point with local coordinates (c1,...,cn) is the zero set of the polynomials x1-c1, ..., xn-cn. Thus, the point is closed. However, this example is well known as a space that is not Hausdorff (T2). The Zariski topology is essentially an example of a cofinite topology.
• The Zariski topology on a commutative ring (that is, the prime spectrum of a ring) is T0 but not, in general, T1.[3] To see this, note that the closure of a one-point set is the set of all prime ideals that contain the point (and thus the topology is T0). However, this closure is a maximal ideal, and the only closed points are the maximal ideals, and are thus not contained in any of the open sets of the topology, and thus the space does not satisfy axiom T1. To be clear about this example: the Zariski topology for a commutative ring A is given as follows: the topological space is the set X of all prime ideals of A. The base of the topology is given by the open sets Oa of prime ideals that do not contain a in A. It is straightforward to verify that this indeed forms the basis: so OaOb = Oab and O0 = Ø and O1 = X. The closed sets of the Zariski topology are the sets of prime ideals that do contain a. Notice how this example differs subtly from the cofinite topology example, above: the points in the topology are not closed, in general, whereas in a T1 space, points are always closed.
• Every totally disconnected space is T1, since every point is a connected component and therefore closed.

## Generalisations to other kinds of spaces

The terms "T1", "R0", and their synonyms can also be applied to such variations of topological spaces as uniform spaces, Cauchy spaces, and convergence spaces. The characteristic that unites the concept in all of these examples is that limits of fixed ultrafilters (or constant nets) are unique (for T1 spaces) or unique up to topological indistinguishability (for R0 spaces).

As it turns out, uniform spaces, and more generally Cauchy spaces, are always R0, so the T1 condition in these cases reduces to the T0 condition. But R0 alone can be an interesting condition on other sorts of convergence spaces, such as pretopological spaces.

## References

1. ^ Arkhangel'skii (1990). See section 2.6.
2. ^ Archangel'skii (1990) See proposition 13, section 2.6.
3. ^ Arkhangel'skii (1990). See example 21, section 2.6.
• Lynn Arthur Steen and J. Arthur Seebach, Jr., Counterexamples in Topology. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1978. Reprinted by Dover Publications, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-486-68735-X (Dover edition).
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