Topological subbasis
Any family of subsets
Proof the generated topology is well defined and matches the basis
Let
be a family of subsets whose union equals We claim that there exists a coarsest topology containing . In order to satisfy the axioms for a Topological space, must be closed under finite intersection and (in)finite union. If we first complete under finite intersection to obtain a Topological basis , and thereafter under (in)finite union, we obtain a complete , since the finite intersection of unions may always be expressed as the union of finite intersections.