Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-topology-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/3/a/ii/solution

List the finite vertex set as . Map a point to its barycentric coordinates:
On each simplex this is an affine map and therefore continuous. The definitions agree on every common face, so the quotient topology defining the realization makes continuous on all of . Barycentric coordinates are unique after zero coordinates are added, so is injective.
Since Euclidean space is Hausdorff, distinct images have disjoint open neighbourhoods. Their inverse images separate the original points. Hence is Hausdorff. A continuous injection into a Hausdorff space is enough for this conclusion; no prior Hausdorff assumption on the domain is being used.

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