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Which of the following spaces need not be Hausdorff ?

  • A.X is a topological space such that \(\Delta = \{x \times x/x \in X\}\) is closed in \(X \times X\)
  • B.X is a metric space
  • C.X is an Indiscrete Topological space
  • D.X is the product of two Hausdorff spaces

Answer: C

The space that need not be Hausdorff is an indiscrete topological space.

In the indiscrete topology the only open sets are the empty set and X. If X has two points, the only open set containing either of them is X itself, so they cannot be separated by disjoint open sets.

The others are always Hausdorff. A space is Hausdorff exactly when its diagonal \(\Delta\) is closed in \(X \times X\) (A). In a metric space two points at distance \(d\) lie in disjoint balls of radius \(d/2\) (B). And a product of Hausdorff spaces is Hausdorff, since points differing in one coordinate are separated by preimages of disjoint open sets (D).

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