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Section Topological Invariants

Homeomorphic topological spaces are essentially the same from a topological perspective, and they share many properties, but not all. The properties they share are called topological invariants or topological properties.

Definition 14.13.

A property of a topological space X is a topological property (or topological invariant ) if every topological space homeomorphic to X has the same property.

Activity 14.6.

Which of the following are topological invariants? That is for topological spaces (X,Ο„X) and (Y,Ο„Y), if X and Y are homeomorphic space and X has the property, does it follow that Y must also have that property?