Compactness utilities #
General lemmas about compact and σ-compact subsets of topological spaces, and limits along ultrafilters of families eventually in a compact set.
Connected components of a compact set are compact. The connected component of a compact
set K at a point is closed in K, hence compact; it is empty at a point outside K.
A continuous injection on a compact set maps components onto components. If f is
continuous and injective on a compact set K with values in a Hausdorff space, and A ⊆ K, then
f maps the connected component of A at a point x ∈ K onto the connected component of
f '' A at f x. Both sides are empty when x ∉ A.
A family that eventually lies in a compact set s along an ultrafilter converges along it to
a point of s.
A preconnected noncompact space has no compact connected component: its only component is the whole space.
The component in Sᶜ of a point of S is empty, so its closure is compact.
A point whose component in Sᶜ has noncompact closure lies outside S.
The union of two σ-compact sets is σ-compact.
Slices of a map proper on s ×ˢ I are proper: if (s ×ˢ I) ∩ H ⁻¹' K is compact for
every compact K ⊆ U, then so is s ∩ H (·, t) ⁻¹' K for every t ∈ I.
A compact set contains no infinite subset all of whose subsets are closed: such a subset would be closed, hence compact, and discrete.
If W is open and ι is continuous on a compact space, the set of parameters x with
{x} × ι(α) ⊆ W is open.