Closed Sets of Either-Or Topology

Theorem
Let $T = \struct {S, \tau}$ be the either-or space.

Then the closed sets of $T$ are:
 * $\O$
 * $S$
 * $\set {-1}$
 * $\set 1$
 * $\set {-1, 1}$
 * Any subset of $\closedint {-1} 1$ containing $\set 0$ as a subset.

Proof
From Open and Closed Sets in Topological Space we have that $\O$ and $S$ are closed sets trivially.

From the definition of closed set, we have:
 * $U$ is open in $T$ $S \setminus U$ is closed in $T$
 * $U$ is closed in $T$ $S \setminus U$ is open in $T$

where $S \setminus U$ denotes the relative complement of $U$ in $S$.

Now we have that:
 * $\openint {-1} 1$ is open in $T$ so $S \setminus \openint {-1} 1 = \set {-1, 1}$ is closed in $T$.


 * Both $\hointr {-1} 1 \supseteq \openint {-1} 1$ and $\hointr {-1} 1 \supseteq \openint {-1} 1$ therefore are open in $T$, so $\set {-1}$ and $\set 1$ are closed in $T$.

Apart from $S$ itself, there are no other subsets of $S = \closedint {-1} 1$ which have $\openint {-1} 1$ as a subset.

Finally, let $U \in \tau: \set 0 \nsubseteq U$.

Then by the definition of relative complement $\set 0 \subseteq S \setminus U$.

Now suppose $\set 0 \subseteq V$.

Then again by the definition of relative complement $\set 0 \nsubseteq S \setminus V$.

So $S \setminus V$ is open in $T$ and so $V$ is closed in $T$.