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Sequences Converge Iff Projections Converge
Let x1,x2,,xn be a sequence of points in the product space Xα. This sequence converges to the point x if and only if πα(xk)πα(x) for every α

Suppose that xnx, and fix βA and let U be a neighborhood of πβ(x) and consider Cα where Cα=Xα whenever αβ and Cα=U when α=β, therefore we know that xB:=Cα since this is a product of open sets where all but finitely many are the whole space then B is a basis element of the product topology and thus is an open set containing x therefore by assumption there exists an N such that for all kN we have that xkB meaning that πβ(xk)U, therefore πα(xk)πα(x) as needed.

Suppose that πα(xk)πα(x) for each α, and let's prove that xnx so let U be an open neighborhood of x. Since xXα then we know that there exists a basis element B from the product topology such that xBU recall that B=Vα where there exists some finite set FA such that Vα is an open set in Xα whenever αF and Vα=Xα otherwise.

Since xVα then we know that πα(x)Vα, note that Vα is an open neighborhood of πα(x), now we restrict our attention to αF now by assumption we know that there exists some Nα such that whenever we have j>Nα then πα(xj), since F was finite, then N=max({Nα:αF}).

Now suppose that s>N therefore we know that xsVα for every αF as constructed in the previous paragraph, additionally whenver αAF then Vα=Xα therefore we definitely know that xsVα in that case. Therefore we've shown that xsB and since BU then xsU as needed, so it converges.


Also note that if we consider Xα with the box topology then the statement is no longer true, because if we consider x=(0,0,0,) then n1(1n,1n) is a neighborhood of x, and consider the sequence of elements from Xα where we define xi=(1i,1i,) for each i1 then πj(xn)=(1,12,13,) converges to 0=πj(x) but then its clear that (xn) does not converge to x because for any k1 there is a point at which U gets too small and excludes elements from xk, in other words xkU.

All but Finitely Many Satisfy a Property
Suppose that X is a set and P is a prediate on that set, the predicate: abfm(X,P):"|{xX:¬P(x)}|<
R Infinity
We define ={(xn): such that abfm({xn},=0)}
Closure of R Infinity in the Box and Product Topologies
Consider the space , then in the box topology we have = and = in the product topology

We will show that = by showing that the set is closed by by following this corollary. So let (xn) then that means that there are infinitely many i1 such that xi0, for each such xi since it is an element of R then we can construct an open set around xi that does not contain 0 by using setting δ=xi2 and considering the interval (xiδ,xi+δ) let's denote that set by Ui, we can expand this definition for all i0 by considering the places at which xi=0, for those places we will set Ui=, then note that for any yUi then y also has infinitely many entries that are non-zero, thus y, this proves that Ui= meaning that there exists a neighborhood which doesn't intersect at all and thus since (xn) was an arbitrary element of then no point there is a limit point, therefore the corollary tells us that is closed.

Now we do the same but for the product topology but we only focus on elements outside and now let x , and let B=Un be a basis element containing x therefore Un= for all but finitely many indices, and therefore there exists some N1 such that for any nN we have that Un= we now construct y such that yn=xn for all n<N and yn=0 whenever nN we observe that xy as x has infinitely many elements of its sequence that are non-zero, whereas y only has finitely many that are non-zero which also tells us that y which shows that yB therefore we know that x(R) which shows that every point outside is a limit point, so we conclude that =, as needed.