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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 xn→x, and fix β∈A and let U be a neighborhood of πβ(x) and consider ∏Cα where Cα=Xα whenever α≠β and Cα=U when α=β, therefore we know that x∈B:=∏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 k≥N we have that xk∈B 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 xn→x so let U be an open neighborhood of x. Since x∈∏Xα then we know that there exists a basis element B from the product topology such that x∈B⊆U recall that B=∏Vα where there exists some finite set F⊆A such that Vα is an open set in Xα whenever α∈F and Vα=Xα otherwise.

Since x∈∏Vα then we know that πα(x)∈Vα, note that Vα is an open neighborhood of πα(x), now we restrict our attention to α∈F 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:α∈F}).

Now suppose that s>N therefore we know that xs∈Vα for every α∈F as constructed in the previous paragraph, additionally whenver α∈A∖F then Vα=Xα therefore we definitely know that xs∈Vα in that case. Therefore we've shown that xs∈B and since B⊆U then xs∈U 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,…)∈ℝ∞ then ∏n∈ℕ1(−1n,1n) is a neighborhood of x, and consider the sequence of elements from ∏Xα where we define xi=(1i,1i,…) for each i∈ℕ1 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 k∈ℕ1 there is a point at which U gets too small and excludes elements from xk, in other words xk∉U.

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):"|{x∈X:¬P(x)}|<∞′′
R Infinity
We define ℝ∞={(xn): such that abfm⁡({xn},=0)}
Closure of R Infinity in the Box and Product Topologies
Consider the space ℝℝ, then in the box topology we have ℝ∞=ℝ∞ and ℝ∞=ℝℝ in the product topology

We will show that ℝ∞=ℝ∞ by showing that the set is closed by by following this corollary. So let (xn)∉ℝ∞ then that means that there are infinitely many i∈ℕ1 such that xi≠0, 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 (xi−δ,xi+δ) let's denote that set by Ui, we can expand this definition for all i∈ℕ0 by considering the places at which xi=0, for those places we will set Ui=ℝ, then note that for any y∈∏Ui then y also has infinitely many entries that are non-zero, thus y∉ℝ∞, this proves that ℝ∞∩∏Ui=∅ meaning that there exists a neighborhood which doesn't intersect ℝ∞ at all and thus since (xn) was an arbitrary element of ℝℝ∖ℝ∞ then no point there is a limit point, therefore the corollary tells us that ℝ∞ is closed.

Now we do the same but for the product topology but we only focus on elements outside and now let x∈ℝℝ∖ℝ∞ , and let B=∏Un be a basis element containing x therefore Un=ℝ for all but finitely many indices, and therefore there exists some N∈ℕ1 such that for any n≥N we have that Un=ℝ we now construct y such that yn=xn for all n<N and yn=0 whenever n≥N we observe that x≠y 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∈ℝ∞ which shows that y∈B∩ℝ∞≠∅ therefore we know that x∈(R∞)′ which shows that every point outside ℝ∞ is a limit point, so we conclude that ℝ∞=ℝℝ, as needed.