Bourbaki

Proposition 14

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General Topology, chapter II, § 3. Complete spaces

Let X be a complete Hausdorff uniform space, U\mathfrak{U} its uniformity, and let Z be a dense subspace of X. If U′\mathfrak{U}' is a uniformity on X which is coarser than U\mathfrak{U} and which induces the same uniformity as U\mathfrak{U} on Z, then U=U′\mathfrak{U} = \mathfrak{U}'.

Let X' denote the set X with the uniformity U′\mathfrak{U}'. The composition of the canonical mapping X′→X^′X' \to \hat{X}' and the identity mapping X→X′X \to X' is a uniformly continuous mapping φ:X→X^′\varphi : X \to \hat{X}'. Since Z is Hausdorff for the uniform structure induced by U′\mathfrak{U}', the restriction of φ\varphi to Z is by hypothesis an isomorphism of Z onto the dense subspace φ(Z)\varphi(Z) of X^′\hat{X}'; it follows (no. 6, Corollary to Theorem 2) that φ\varphi itself is an isomorphism of X onto X^′\hat{X}', hence X′=X^′X' = \hat{X}' and U′=U\mathfrak{U}' = \mathfrak{U}.

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

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