Space in which All Convergent Sequences have Unique Limit not necessarily Hausdorff

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Theorem

Let $T = \struct{S, \tau}$ be a topological space.

Let $T$ be such that all convergent sequences have a unique limit.


Then it is not necessarily the case that $T$ is a Hausdorff space.


Proof

Let $T = \struct{\R, \tau}$ be the set of real numbers $\R$ with the countable complement topology.

From Countable Complement Space is not $T_2$, $T$ is not a Hausdorff space.


Suppose $\sequence{x_n}$ is a sequence in $\R$ which converges to $x$.

Then $C = \set{x_n: x_n \ne x}$ is closed in $T$ because it is countable.

So $X \setminus C$ is a neighborhood of $x$.

This means there is some $N \in \N$ such that:

$\forall n > N: x_n \in X \setminus C$

That is, $x_n = x$ for large $n$.

This means that if $x_n \to y$ then $y = x$, proving limits in $T$ are unique.

$\blacksquare$