Topology of relational configurations #
The product topology on relational configurations is compact Hausdorff, and relabelling by a permutation of the carrier is continuous. Restriction along a vertex map is continuous, and jointly continuous in the vertex map when the target carrier is discrete. Specifying an atom's truth value gives a clopen, measurable cylinder. On countable carriers in countable relational vocabularies the topology is Polish and its Borel σ-algebra is the existing product σ-algebra. The same construction handles finite and empty carriers.
These are the usual spaces of structures used for the logic action; see Gao,
Invariant Descriptive Set Theory. The measurable coordinates and encoding of structures are
those of TauCeti.RelationalConfiguration; no second space of Boolean codes is introduced.
Reading one atom is continuous.
Continuity into configurations is equivalent to continuity of every atom coordinate.
Building a configuration from its atom values is continuous.
Restricting along a vertex map is continuous.
Restriction is jointly continuous in the vertex map and the configuration when the target carrier is discrete.
Each relabelling by a permutation of the carrier is continuous.
The configurations giving a fixed answer to one atom form a clopen cylinder.
There are at most continuum many configurations on a countable carrier in a countable relational vocabulary. Function symbols play no role.