Locally Hausdorff space


In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be locally Hausdorff if every point has a neighbourhood that is a Hausdorff space under the subspace topology.

Examples and sufficient conditions

A space is locally Hausdorff exactly if it can be written as a union of Hausdorff open subspaces. And in a locally Hausdorff space each point belongs to some Hausdorff dense open subspace.
Every locally Hausdorff space is T1. The converse is not true in general. For example, an infinite set with the cofinite topology is a T1 space that is not locally Hausdorff.
Every locally Hausdorff space is sober.
If is a topological group that is locally Hausdorff at some point then is Hausdorff. This follows from the fact that if there exists a homeomorphism from to itself carrying to so is locally Hausdorff at every point, and is therefore T1.