Proposition 8
Tag 0BEY, permanent. Cite it as [Bourbaki, Tag 0BEY].
General Topology, chapter II, § 3. Complete spaces
Every closed subspace of a complete space is complete. Every complete subspace of a Hausdorff uniform space (complete or not) is closed.
Let be a complete space and let be a closed subspace of . If is a Cauchy filter on , then it is a Cauchy filter base on (no. 1, Proposition 3) and therefore converges to a point ; but since is closed we have , and therefore converges in the subspace .
Now let be a non-closed subset of a Hausdorff uniform space , and let . The trace on of the neighbourhood filter of in is a Cauchy filter on ; but it cannot converge to a point , otherwise would be a limit point of (no. 2, Proposition 5, Corollary 3) which is absurd since and is Hausdorff.
Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.
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- Corollary, § 3
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- Definition 2, § 3
- Proposition 1, § 6
- Corollary 1, § 2