Bourbaki

Proposition 3

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General Topology, chapter II, § 4. Relations between uniform spaces and compact spaces

Let XX be a set, let (Yλ)λ∈L(Y_\lambda)_{\lambda \in L} be a family of uniform spaces, and for each λ∈L\lambda \in L let fλf_\lambda be a mapping of XX into YλY_\lambda. Let XX carry the coarsest uniformity for which the fλf_\lambda are uniformly continuous. Then a subset AA of XX is precompact if and only if fλ(A)f_\lambda(A) is a precompact subset of YλY_\lambda for each λ∈L\lambda \in L.

The condition is necessary by virtue of Proposition 2. Sufficiency follows from the characterization of the Hausdorff completion of XX given in § 3, no. 9, Proposition 18, and Tychonoff’s theorem (Chapter I, § 9, Theorem 3, Corollary).

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

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