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In the subspace topology on , a subset is open in precisely when for some open set . A subset is closed in precisely when is open in , equivalently for some closed set .
A compact space is one for which every open cover has a finite subcover. Here the cover may use relatively open subsets of , or equivalently ambient open subsets covering it. The Heine-Borel theorem states that
Closedness and boundedness here refer to the ambient complex plane, not merely closedness in itself.

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