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Timeline for homeomorphisms on k-spaces

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Mar 16, 2011 at 16:00 comment added pdt Thanks, in the meanwhile I made a very similar reasoning, which I post below (partly for my own reference; I tend to lose my notes). Take any compactum $K \subset X$. Then $h(K)$ is compact by assumption. Thus any closed set $C\subset h(K)$ is also compact, being a closed subset of a compactum. Therefore $h^{-1}(C)$ is compact, and hence closed ($X$ is Hausdorff). Thus the pre-image of any closed set $C$ under $h|_K$ is closed, i.e. $h|_K$ is continuous. By compact generation, $h$ itself is continuous. Similarly, one shows that $h^{-1}$ is continuous, i.e. $h$ is a homeomorphism.
Mar 16, 2011 at 15:52 vote accept pdt
Mar 16, 2011 at 15:43 history answered Eric Wofsey CC BY-SA 2.5