In mathematics, a weak Hausdorff space or weakly Hausdorff space is a topological space where the image of every continuous map from a compact Hausdorff space into the space is closed.^[1] In particular, every Hausdorff space is weak Hausdorff. As a separation property, it is stronger than T₁, which is equivalent to the statement that points are closed. Specifically, every weak Hausdorff space is a T₁ space.^[2][3]

The notion was introduced by M. C. McCord^[4] to remedy an inconvenience of working with the category of Hausdorff spaces. It is often used in tandem with compactly generated spaces in algebraic topology. For that, see the category of compactly generated weak Hausdorff spaces.

k-Hausdorff spaces

A k-Hausdorff space^[5] is a topological space which satisfies any of the following equivalent conditions:

1. Each compact subspace is Hausdorff.
2. The diagonal ${\displaystyle \{(x,x):x\in X\}}$ is k-closed in ${\displaystyle X\times X.}$
   • A subset ${\displaystyle A\subseteq Y}$ is k-closed, if ${\displaystyle A\cap C}$ is closed in ${\displaystyle C}$ for each compact ${\displaystyle C\subseteq Y.}$
3. Each compact subspace is closed and strongly locally compact.
   • A space is strongly locally compact if for each ${\displaystyle x\in X}$ and each (not necessarily open) neighborhood ${\displaystyle U\subseteq X}$ of ${\displaystyle x,}$ there exists a compact neighborhood ${\displaystyle V\subseteq X}$ of ${\displaystyle x}$ such that ${\displaystyle V\subseteq U.}$

Δ-Hausdorff spaces

A Δ-Hausdorff space is a topological space where the image of every path is closed; that is, if whenever ${\displaystyle f:[0,1]\to X}$ is continuous then ${\displaystyle f([0,1])}$ is closed in ${\displaystyle X.}$ Every weak Hausdorff space is ${\displaystyle \Delta }$-Hausdorff, and every ${\displaystyle \Delta }$-Hausdorff space is a T₁ space. A space is Δ-generated if its topology is the finest topology such that each map ${\displaystyle f:\Delta ^{n}\to X}$ from a topological ${\displaystyle n}$-simplex ${\displaystyle \Delta ^{n}}$ to ${\displaystyle X}$ is continuous. ${\displaystyle \Delta }$-Hausdorff spaces are to ${\displaystyle \Delta }$-generated spaces as weak Hausdorff spaces are to compactly generated spaces.

See also

• Fixed-point space – Topological space such that every endomorphism has a fixed point, a Hausdorff space where every continuous function from the space into itself has a fixed point.
• Hausdorff space – Type of topological space
• Locally Hausdorff space
• Particular point topology
• Quasitopological space – a set X equipped with a function that associates to every compact Hausdorff space K a collection of maps K→C satisfying certain natural conditionsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Separation axiom – Axioms in topology defining notions of "separation"

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