Submetrizable space

This article defines a property of topological spaces: a property that can be evaluated to true/false for any topological space|View a complete list of properties of topological spaces

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Definition

A topological space is said to be submetrizable if it is either a metrizable space to begin with or we can choose a coarser topology on the space and thus make it a metrizable space.

Relation with other properties

Stronger properties

• Metrizable space

Metaproperties

Products

This property of topological spaces is closed under taking arbitrary products
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This follows from the fact that a direct product of metrizable spaces is metrizable.

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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This follows from the fact that any subspace of a metrizable space is metrizable.

Refining

This property of topological spaces is preserved under refining, viz, if a set with a given topology has the property, the same set with a finer topology also has the property
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This follows immediately from the definition.