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Concept in topology

In mathematics, a topological space X {\displaystyle X} is said to be a Baire space if countable unions of closed sets with empty interior also have empty interior. According to the Baire category theorem, compact Hausdorff spaces and complete metric spaces are examples of Baire spaces. The Baire category theorem combined with the properties of Baire spaces has numerous applications in topology, geometry, and analysis, in particular functional analysis.[2][3] For more motivation and applications, see the article Baire category theorem. The current article focuses more on characterizations and basic properties of Baire spaces per se.

Bourbaki introduced the term "Baire space" in honor of René Baire, who investigated the Baire category theorem in the context of Euclidean space R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} in his 1899 thesis.[6]

The definition that follows is based on the notions of a meagre (or first category) set (namely, a set that is a countable union of sets whose closure has empty interior) and a nonmeagre (or second category) set (namely, a set that is not meagre). See the corresponding article for details.

A topological space X {\displaystyle X} is called a Baire space if it satisfies any of the following equivalent conditions:

  1. Every countable intersection of dense open sets is dense.
  2. Every countable union of closed sets with empty interior has empty interior.
  3. Every meagre set has empty interior.
  4. Every nonempty open set is nonmeagre.[note 1]
  5. Every comeagre set is dense.
  6. Whenever a countable union of closed sets has an interior point, at least one of the closed sets has an interior point.

The equivalence between these definitions is based on the associated properties of complementary subsets of X {\displaystyle X} (that is, of a set A ⊆ X {\displaystyle A\subseteq X} and of its complement X ∖ A {\displaystyle X\setminus A} ) as given in the table below.

Property of a set Property of complement open closed comeagre meagre dense has empty interior has dense interior nowhere dense Baire category theorem[edit]

The Baire category theorem gives sufficient conditions for a topological space to be a Baire space.

BCT1 shows that the following are Baire spaces:

BCT2 shows that the following are Baire spaces:

One should note however that there are plenty of spaces that are Baire spaces without satisfying the conditions of the Baire category theorem, as shown in the Examples section below.

Let f n : X → Y {\displaystyle f_{n}:X\to Y} be a sequence of continuous functions with pointwise limit f : X → Y . {\displaystyle f:X\to Y.} If X {\displaystyle X} is a Baire space, then the points where f {\displaystyle f} is not continuous is a meagre set in X {\displaystyle X} and the set of points where f {\displaystyle f} is continuous is dense in X . {\displaystyle X.} A special case of this is the uniform boundedness principle.

The following are examples of Baire spaces for which the Baire category theorem does not apply, because these spaces are not locally compact and not completely metrizable:

Algebraic varieties with the Zariski topology are Baire spaces. An example is the affine space A n {\displaystyle \mathbb {A} ^{n}} consisting of the set C n {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} ^{n}} of n-tuples of complex numbers, together with the topology whose closed sets are the vanishing sets of polynomials f ∈ C [ x 1 , … , x n ] . {\displaystyle f\in \mathbb {C} [x_{1},\ldots ,x_{n}].}

  1. ^ As explained in the meagre set article, for an open set, being nonmeagre in the whole space is equivalent to being nonmeagre in itself.

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