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Joel David Hamkins
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This is a community wiki of the answers in the comments.

  • The compact Hausdorff topologies do not generally form a maximal antichain. If X is infinite, split X into two infinite halves and put the discrete topology on one half and the indiscrete topology on the other half. (Comment by François G. Dorais)

  • There is a maximal compact topology on a countable space which is not Hausdorff. See Steen & Seebach 99. (Comment by Gerald Edgar)

  • There is a minimal Hausdorff topology on a countable space which is not compact. See Steen & Seebach 100. (Comment by François G. Dorais)

  • Those examples can be lifted to any cardinality space, simply by using the disjoint sum with any given compact Hausdorff space. (Comment by Gerald Edgar)

  • The Axiom of Choice implies that every set admits a compact Hausdorff topology, using the order topology of a successor well-ordering of it. (Comments by François G. Dorais and Gerald Edgar)

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François G. Dorais
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