Bourbaki

Corollary

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General Topology, chapter II, § 3. Complete spaces

Let X1,X2X_1, X_2 be two complete Hausdorff uniform spaces, and let Y1,Y2Y_1, Y_2 be dense subspaces of X1,X2X_1, X_2 respectively. Then every isomorphism ff of Y1Y_1 onto Y2Y_2 extends to an isomorphism of X1X_1 onto X2X_2.

ff is uniformly continuous in Y1Y_1, hence (Theorem 2) extends to a uniformly continuous mapping fˉ:X1→X2\bar{f} : X_1 \to X_2. Likewise the inverse gg of ff extends to a uniformly continuous mapping gˉ:X2→X1\bar{g} : X_2 \to X_1. The function gˉ∘fˉ\bar{g} \circ \bar{f} is therefore a continuous mapping of X1X_1 into itself whose restriction to Y1Y_1 is the identity mapping; by the principle of extension of identities (Chapter I, §\S 8, no. 1, Corollary 1 to Proposition 2) gˉ∘fˉ\bar{g} \circ \bar{f} is therefore the identity mapping of X1X_1; similarly fˉ∘gˉ\bar{f} \circ \bar{g} is the identity map of X2X_2. Consequently (Set Theory, R, §\S 2, no. 12) fˉ−1\bar{f}^{-1} and gˉ\bar{g} are bijections and are inverses of each other; they are also uniformly continuous and are therefore isomorphisms (§\S 2, no. 1, Proposition 2).

It should be remarked that if ff is a bijective uniformly continuous mapping of Y1Y_1 onto Y2Y_2, its extension by continuity need be neither injective nor surjective (Exercise 3).

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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