Definition:Compact Complement Topology

Definition
Let $T = \struct {\R, \tau}$ be the real number line with the usual (Euclidean) topology.

Let $\tau^*$ be the set defined as:
 * $\tau^* = \leftset {S \subseteq \R: S = \O \text { or } \relcomp \R S}$ is compact in $\rightset {\struct {\R, \tau} }$

where $\relcomp \R S$ denotes the complement of $S$ in $\R$.

Then $\tau^*$ is the compact complement topology on $\R$, and $T^* = \struct {\R, \tau^*}$ is the compact complement space on $\R$.

Also see

 * Compact Complement Topology is Topology