Stone-Čech compactification

English

Alternative forms

• Čech-Stone compactification

Etymology

Named after Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech, who wrote on the topic in 1937.

Noun

Stone-Čech compactification (countable and uncountable, plural Stone-Čech compactifications) (topology)

1. A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact Hausdorff space.
2. The space obtained by using this technique.