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Past exam of the topology course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 b iv Solution by
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False. Take the metric space with the Euclidean distance and subspace topology inherited from . For every , identify with ; leave the two points and in separate equivalence classes. All equivalence classes have one or two points, so all are closed in this metric space.
Let be the two distinct images of the origins. If are any open neighbourhoods of in the quotient space, their preimages contain respectivelyfor some . Choose . The common image belongs to both and . Therefore the origins have no disjoint open neighbourhoods and the quotient space is not Hausdorff. This is the line with two origins.
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