Skip to content

Commit 83cba85

Browse files
Improve definition Stone-Cech compactification of the integers (S108) (#1571)
1 parent 1e38c41 commit 83cba85

1 file changed

Lines changed: 8 additions & 11 deletions

File tree

spaces/S000108/README.md

Lines changed: 8 additions & 11 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
11
---
22
uid: S000108
3-
name: Stone-Cech compactification of the integers
3+
name: Stone-Čech compactification $\beta\omega$ of the integers
44
aliases:
5-
- Beta N
6-
- βN
7-
- Beta Z
8-
- Beta omega
9-
- Stone-Cech compactification of the natural numbers
5+
- $\beta\mathbb{N}$
106
counterexamples_id: 111
117
refs:
128
- zb: "0386.54001"
@@ -15,10 +11,11 @@ refs:
1511
name: Stone–Čech compactification on Wikipedia
1612
---
1713

18-
$\beta \omega$ is the set of all ultrafilters on $\omega=\{0,1,2\dots\}$,
19-
where we identify $n$ with the principal ultrafilter containing $n$.
20-
The topology on $\beta\omega$ is generated by all sets of the form
21-
$\overline U = \{F \in \beta\omega : U \in F\}$ for $U \subset \omega$.
14+
The Stone-Čech compactification of {S2}.
15+
One way to describe $X=\beta \omega$ is as the set of all ultrafilters on $\omega=\{0,1,2\dots\}$,
16+
where we identify $n \in \omega$ with the principal ultrafilter containing $n$.
17+
The topology on $X$ is generated by all sets of the form
18+
$\overline U = \{F \in \beta\omega : U \in F\}$ for $U \subseteq \omega$.
2219

23-
Defined as counterexample #111 ("Stone-Cech Compactification of the Integers")
20+
Defined as counterexample #111 ("Stone-Čech Compactification of the Integers")
2421
in {{zb:0386.54001}}.

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)