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Countable complement topology

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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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Compact subsets of a cocountable space

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Countable complement topology
Only finite subsets are compact in the cocountable topology. An infinite subset contains distinct c1​,c2​,…. The open sets obtained by removing the tails {cj​:j≥n} form an increasing open cover, but every finite selection misses a tail point. Finite sets are compact in every topology.

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