Open and closed maps

A bijections is open iff it is closed

Let ๐‘“ :๐‘‹ โค–๐‘Œ be a bijection between topological spaces. Then ๐‘“ is open iff it is closed. #m/thm/topology

Proof

Let ๐‘“ is closed iff for every open ๐‘ˆ โІ๐‘‹, ๐‘“(๐‘‹ โˆ–๐‘ˆ) =๐‘Œ โˆ–๐‘‰ for some open ๐‘‰ โІ๐‘Œ, which by bijectivity is true iff ๐‘“(๐‘ˆ) =๐‘‰.


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