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Finiteness at infinity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

P. A. Firby
P. A. Firby
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The University, Sheffield, England
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If X is a Tychonoff topological space, and if βX is the Stone-Cech compactification of X, then βX\X will denote the complement of X in βX. If A is a subset of X, then cl [A: X] will denote the closure of A in X, and int [A: X] will denote the interior of A in X. In Isbell ((3), p. 119) a property of βX\X is called a property which X has at infinity, and it is the aim of this paper to give necessary and sufficient conditions for X to be finite at infinity. Since βX is T1 we can say that if X is finite at infinity, then βX\X is closed in βX. So we lose nothing by restricting our attention to locally compact, Tychonoff spaces, and for the remainder of the paper X will denote such a space.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 299 - 304
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1971

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