Noetherian space

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Definition

A topological space is termed Noetherian if it satisfies the following equivalent conditions:

No.	Shorthand	A topological space is termed Noetherian if ...	A topological space $X$ is termed Noetherian if ...
1	descending chain of closed subsets	Any descending chain of closed subsets stabilizes after finitely many steps (in other words, the topological space satisfies the descending chain condition on closed subsets).	for any descending chain of closed subsets $C_{1}\supseteq C_{2}\supseteq C_{3}\supseteq \ldots$ there exists a $n$ such that $C_{n}=C_{n+1}=\ldots$.
2	minimal element in collection of closed subsets	Any nonempty collection of closed subsets has a minimal element i.e. a closed subset which does not strictly contain any other member of the collection.
3	ascending chain of open subsets	Any ascending chain of open subsets stabilizes after finitely many steps (in other words, the topological space satisfies the ascending chain condition on open subsets).
4	maximal element in collection of open subsets	Any nonempty collection of open subsets has a maximal element i.e. a closed subset which does not strictly contain any other member of the collection.
5	union of irreducibles	every nonempty closed subset of the space can be expressed as a union of finitely many irreducible closed subsets of the space.

Relation with other properties

Weaker properties

Property	Meaning	Proof of implication	Proof of strictness (reverse implication failure)	Intermediate notions
hereditarily compact space
compact space

Opposite properties

• Hausdorff space: The only Noetherian Hausdorff spaces are finite spaces with the discrete topology.

Metaproperties

Hereditariness

This property of topological spaces is hereditary, or subspace-closed. In other words, any subspace (subset with the subspace topology) of a topological space with this property also has this property.
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Any subspace of a Noetherian space is Noetherian.