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Alexandrov topology en · NOUN

Etymology

Along with the closely related concept of Alexandrov-discrete space, after Russian mathematician Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov.

Meanings

1. A topology in which the intersection of any family of open sets is an open set.
   • 2016, Piero Pagliani, Covering Rough Sets and Formal Topology — A Uniform Approach Through Intensional and Extensional Operators, James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron (editors), Transactions on Rough Sets XX, Springer, LNCS 10020, page 134, (6) S_0,2(P(R_C)) is the family of open sets of the Alexandrov topology induced by R_C and S(P(R_C)) is the family of closed sets of the Alexandrov topology induced by R^⌣_C;
   • In Minkowski space-time there is, indeed, a topology definable solely in terms of the causal connectivity among events, the Alexandrov topology, which is provably equivalent to the ordinary manifold topology. 1990, Palle Yourgrau, Demonstratives, Oxford University Press, page 252:
   • 4.24. THEOREM. The following three restrictions on a space-time M are equivalent: (a) M is strongly causal; (b) the Alexandrov topology agrees with the manifold topology; (c) the Alexandrov topology is Hausdorff. 1972, Roger Penrose, Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity, SIAM, page 34:

Forms

wikipedia: Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov