Approach filters in the one-point compactification #
The punctured neighbourhoods of a point of the space in its one-point compactification are the images of its punctured neighbourhoods in the space, so the inclusion preserves them.
Approaching infinity within the image of a set is described by the coclosed-compact filter restricted to that set. In a pseudometric space, escaping bounded sets gives convergence to the compactifying point. These facts translate limits in the original space into limits in its one-point compactification.
The one-point compactification of a proper pseudometric space is first countable: at a point of
the space it inherits the neighbourhood filter of the space, and at infinity the complements of
the closed balls about a fixed point form a countable basis. Being also compact, it is then
sequentially compact, and Fatou-type limit arguments may be run along its neighbourhood filters.
On a proper space the extended distance from a fixed point, with value ⊤ at infinity, is
continuous on the one-point compactification.
The punctured neighbourhoods of a point of X in the one-point compactification are the images
of its punctured neighbourhoods in X.
The inclusion into the one-point compactification maps punctured neighbourhoods to punctured neighbourhoods.
Approaching infinity within the image of a set in the one-point compactification is equivalent to escaping closed compact sets within the original set.
A map escaping bounded sets in a pseudometric space converges to the compactifying point after embedding in the one-point compactification.
The one-point compactification of a proper pseudometric space is first countable. In a proper
space the coclosed-compact filter is the cobounded filter, which is the pullback of atTop along
the distance to any fixed point.
On a proper space, the extended distance from a fixed point to a point of the one-point
compactification, with value ⊤ at infinity, is continuous.