ANNALES SOCIETATIS MATHEMATICAE POLONAE Series I: COMMENTATIONES MATHEMATICAE ROCZNIKI POLSKIEGO TOWARZYSTWA MATEMATYCZNEGO Seria I: PRACE MATEMATYCZNE XLV (1) (2005), 33-41 A covering criterion and its applications to product theorems

Jacek Jachymski
unpublished
We establish a covering criterion involving a neighbourhood system and ideals of open sets which yields, in particular, a compactness criterion for an arbitrary topological space. As an application, we give new proofs of Tychonoff's compactness theorem: we consider separately the case of a countable product, in a proof of which the ordinary mathematical induction is used, and the case of an uncountable product proved by the transfinite induction. Subsequently, the same argument is applied to
more » ... ain some results on products of Lindelöf spaces. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 54B10, 54D30, 54D20. Secondary: 03E25, 54A25.
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