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Recall that a set is said to be totally ordered if there exists a relation satisfying for all

  1. (antisymmetry)
  2. (transitivity)
  3. (totality)

The usual topology on is defined so that the open intervals for form a base for . It turns out that this construction can be generalized to any totally ordered set .

Definition edit

Let   be a totally ordered set. The topology   on   generated by sets of the form   or   is called the order topology on  


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