Bitopological space

Short description: Set endowed with two topologies

In mathematics, a bitopological space is a set endowed with two topologies. Typically, if the set is $X$ and the topologies are $\sigma$ and $\tau$ then the bitopological space is referred to as $(X,\sigma ,\tau )$. The notion was introduced by J. C. Kelly in the study of quasimetrics, i.e. distance functions that are not required to be symmetric.

Continuity

A map $f:X\to X^{\prime }$ from a bitopological space $(X,{\tau }_1,{\tau }_2)$ to another bitopological space $(X^{\prime },{{\tau }_1}^{\prime },{{\tau }_2}^{\prime })$ is called continuous or sometimes pairwise continuous if $f$ is continuous both as a map from $(X,{\tau }_1)$ to $(X^{\prime },{{\tau }_1}^{\prime })$ and as map from $(X,{\tau }_2)$ to $(X^{\prime },{{\tau }_2}^{\prime })$.

Bitopological variants of topological properties

Corresponding to well-known properties of topological spaces, there are versions for bitopological spaces.

• A bitopological space $(X,{\tau }_1,{\tau }_2)$ is pairwise compact if each cover $\{U_i\mid i\in I\}$ of $X$ with $U_i\in {\tau }_1\cup {\tau }_2$, contains a finite subcover. In this case, $\{U_i\mid i\in I\}$ must contain at least one member from ${\tau }_1$ and at least one member from ${\tau }_2$
• A bitopological space $(X,{\tau }_1,{\tau }_2)$ is pairwise Hausdorff if for any two distinct points $x,y\in X$ there exist disjoint $U_1\in {\tau }_1$ and $U_2\in {\tau }_2$ with $x\in U_1$ and $y\in U_2$.
• A bitopological space $(X,{\tau }_1,{\tau }_2)$ is pairwise zero-dimensional if opens in $(X,{\tau }_1)$ which are closed in $(X,{\tau }_2)$ form a basis for $(X,{\tau }_1)$, and opens in $(X,{\tau }_2)$ which are closed in $(X,{\tau }_1)$ form a basis for $(X,{\tau }_2)$.
• A bitopological space $(X,\sigma ,\tau )$ is called binormal if for every $F_{\sigma }$ $\sigma$-closed and $F_{\tau }$ $\tau$-closed sets there are $G_{\sigma }$ $\sigma$-open and $G_{\tau }$ $\tau$-open sets such that $F_{\sigma }\subseteq G_{\tau }$ $F_{\tau }\subseteq G_{\sigma }$, and $G_{\sigma }\cap G_{\tau }=\mathrm{\varnothing }.$

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