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We sometimes write T for the set of open sets defining a topology, and write (X, T ) for the set X with the topology T More usually, when the topology T is understood, we just say that X is a topological space We say that a topology T is finer than a topology T ′ if every set in T ′ is also in T (T has more open sets) We then say that T ′ is coarser than T The finest topology is
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