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A topological space is said to be countably compact if every countable open cover has a finite subcover.

Countable compactness is equivalent to limit point compactness if is spaces, and is equivalent to compactness if is a metric space.

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countable compactness

Keywords:

topology

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Cross-references: metric space, limit point compactness, equivalent, subcover, finite, open cover, countable, topological space
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This is version 4 of countably compact, born on 2002-01-04, modified 2002-02-03.
Object id is 1233, canonical name is CountablyCompact.
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Classification:

54D20 (General topology :: Fairly general properties :: Noncompact covering properties )

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