Countable complement topology

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Countable complement topology by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
The open sets are the empty set and subsets whose complement is countable. On an uncountable set, any two nonempty open sets intersect, so the space is not Hausdorff. On a countable underlying set this topology is discrete. The compact subsets of a cocountable space are finite, regardless of the cardinality of the underlying set.

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