International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 11 (1988), Issue 3, Pages 503-506
doi:10.1155/S0161171288000596
The Smirnov compactification as a quotient space of the Stone-Čech compactification
Pure Mathematics Department, Queen' s University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Ireland
Received 18 March 1987; Revised 1 June 1987
Copyright © 1988 T. B. M. McMaster. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
For a separated proximity space, a decomposition of the Stone-Čech compactification is presented which produces the Smirnov compactification and its basic properties by elementary arguments without recourse to clusters or totally bounded uniformities.