Moore plane

This article describes a standard counterexample to some plausible but false implications. In other words, it lists a pathology that may be useful to keep in mind to avoid pitfalls in proofs
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Definition

The Moore plane or Niemitzky plane or tangent disk topology is defined as follows: as a set, it is the upper half-plane, along with the bounding real line. The topology is described by the following basis:

• All open disks that lie completely inside the upper half-plane
• For points which are on the bounding line, the union of such a point with an open disk tangent to the bounding line at that point

Topological space properties

Property	Satisfied?	Explanation	Corollary properties satisfied/dissatisfied
separable space	Yes	Any dense subset of the upper half plane in the usual topology is also dense in the Moore plane.
first-countable space	Yes	We can, at any point, take a local basis that only uses disks of rational radius (use tangent disks for points on the bounding line)
completely regular space	Yes	Moore plane is completely regular	satisfies: regular space, Hausdorff space, T1 space, Urysohn space, Kolmogorov space
locally normal space	Yes	Moore plane is locally normal
countably metacompact space	Yes	Moore plane is countably metacompact
normal space	No	Moore plane is not normal	dissatisfies: metrizable space, CW-space, hereditarily normal space
hereditarily separable space	No	the bounding line is an uncountable discrete subset
collectionwise Hausdorff space	No	Moore plane is not collectionwise Hausdorff -- the bounding line is an uncountable discrete subset
metacompact space	No	Moore plane is not metacompact

External links

Definition links

• Wikipedia page