Order topology on a densely ordered set #
The closure of the interval (a, +∞)
is the closed interval [a, +∞)
, unless a
is a top
element.
The closure of the interval (a, +∞)
is the closed interval [a, +∞)
.
The closure of the interval (-∞, a)
is the closed interval (-∞, a]
, unless a
is a bottom
element.
The closure of the interval (-∞, a)
is the interval (-∞, a]
.
The closure of the open interval (a, b)
is the closed interval [a, b]
.
The closure of the interval (a, b]
is the closed interval [a, b]
.
The closure of the interval [a, b)
is the closed interval [a, b]
.
The atTop
filter for an open interval Ioo a b
comes from the left-neighbourhoods filter at
the right endpoint in the ambient order.
The atBot
filter for an open interval Ioo a b
comes from the right-neighbourhoods filter at
the left endpoint in the ambient order.
Let s
be a dense set in a nontrivial dense linear order α
. If s
is a
separable space (e.g., if α
has a second countable topology), then there exists a countable
dense subset t ⊆ s
such that t
does not contain bottom/top elements of α
.
If α
is a nontrivial separable dense linear order, then there exists a
countable dense set s : Set α
that contains neither top nor bottom elements of α
.
For a dense set containing both bot and top elements, see
exists_countable_dense_bot_top
.