topology?

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Originally Posted by bigdoggy

Given a set X={a,b,c} is the following subset a topology for X:
{ X,{a},{b},{a,b},{a,c},{empty set} } ?

Does it satisfy the criteria for a topology?
1) Does it include the empty set?
Yes.
2) Does it include X itself?
Yes.
3) If it includes set U and V does it include $U\cap V$ .
Since there are only 6 sets here, you could just check every possible intersection- yes, it does,.
4) Are all possible unions of members of the collection in the collection?
Again, there are only a finite number of unions to try- yes, it does.

So this is, in fact, a topology for X.