Open Sets in Pseudometric Space

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Theorem

Let $P = \struct {A, d}$ be a pseudometric space.


Then $\O$ and $A$ are both open in $P$.


Proof

From the definition of open set:

$\forall y \in U: \exists \epsilon \in \R_{>0}: \map {B_\epsilon} y \subseteq U$

where $U$ is an open set of $P$.

That is:

One cannot get out of $U$ by moving an arbitrarily small distance from any point in $U$.


Take the case where $U = \O$.

The empty set $\O$ is open by dint of the fact that there are no points $y$ in $\O$ for which the condition is false.

Thus for $\O$:

$\forall y \in U: \exists \epsilon \in \R_{>0}: \map {B_\epsilon} y \subseteq U$ is vacuously true.


When $U = A$, there are no points in $A$ to which one could get to by leaving $U$, an arbitrarily short distance or no, because there are no points in $A$ that are outside of $U$.

$\blacksquare$