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A Functional Analytic Description of Normal Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. Binz
Affiliation:
Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, West Germany
W. Feldman
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
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Throughout the paper, X will denote a completely regular (Hausdorff) topological space and C(X) the R-algebra of all real-valued continuous functions on X. When this algebra carries the continuous convergence structure [1], we write CC(X). We note that CC(X)is a complete [5] convergence R-algebra [1].

Our description of normality reads as follows. A completely regular topological space X is normal if and only if CC(X)/J (endowed with the obvious quotient structure; see § 1) is complete for every closed ideal J ⊂ CC(X).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

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