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In mathematics, a topological space is called collectionwise normal if for every discrete family Fi of closed subsets of there exists a pairwise disjoint family of open sets Ui, such that Fi ⊆ Ui. A family of subsets of is called discrete when every point of has a neighbourhood that intersects at most one of the sets from . An equivalent definition of collectionwise normal demands that the above Ui are themselves a discrete family, which is stronger than pairwise disjoint.
In mathematics, specifically in the field of topology, a monotonically normal space is a particular kind of normal space, defined in terms of a monotone normality operator. It satisfies some interesting properties; for example metric spaces and linearly ordered spaces are monotonically normal, and every monotonically normal space is hereditarily normal.
In the mathematical field of topology, local finiteness is a property of collections of subsets of a topological space. It is fundamental in the study of paracompactness and topological dimension.
In mathematics, particularly topology, a topological space X is locally normal if intuitively it looks locally like a normal space. More precisely, a locally normal space satisfies the property that each point of the space belongs to a neighbourhood of the space that is normal under the subspace topology.
In topology and related fields of mathematics, there are several restrictions that one often makes on the kinds of topological spaces that one wishes to consider. Some of these restrictions are given by the separation axioms. These are sometimes called Tychonoff separation axioms, after Andrey Tychonoff.
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