The Alexandroff or one Point Compactification of a T2 - Space
Letbe a T2 space. Ifis compact then we can define the Alexandroff compactification ofto beitself.
Now supposeis not compact. Letbe any point not belonging to
Definethen the topology onis such thatis open inor ifthen is a compact subset of
The Alexandroff, or one - point compactification ofis defined as the setwith the topology defined above.
The pointis called the ideal point.
It can be shown that
is compact
is a topological space
is dense in