In mathematics, the Arens–Fort space is a special example in the theory of topological spaces, named for Richard Friederich Arens and M. K. Fort, Jr.
The Arens–Fort space is the topological space
, τ )
is the set of ordered pairs of non-negative integers
is open, that is, belongs to
τ ,
if and only if: In other words, an open set is only "allowed" to contain
if only a finite number of its columns contain significant gaps, where a gap in a column is significant if it omits an infinite number of points.
is a cluster point of