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Let be the topological space and , then a point is said to be an interior point of set A, if there exist an open set such that  In other words let A be a subset of a topological space X, a point is said to be an interior points of A if is in some open set contained in A.
Interior of a Set: Let be a topological space and A be a subset of X, then the interior of A is denoted by or is defined to be the union of all open sets contained in A. In other words let be a topological space and A be a subset of X. The interior of A is union of all open subsets of A, and a point in the interior of A is called an interior point of A.
Remarks:
Example: Let with topology . If , then find . Since there is no open set containing and a subset of A, so is not an interior point of A. Similarly, is not an interior point of A. Since is n open set containing and is a subset of A, so is an interior point of A. Hence
Theorems:
- Each point of a non empty subset of a discrete topological space is its interior point.
- The interior of a subset of a discrete topological space is the set itself.
- The interior of a subset A of a topological space X is the union of all open subset of A.
- The subset A of topological space X is open if and only if
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- If A is a subset of a topological space X, then
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- Let
be a topological space and A and B are subsets of X, then (1) (2) (3) |