aDepartamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela;bAllianz Suisse Insurance Company, Laupenstrasse 27, CH-3001 Bern, Switzerland
Abstract:
Let X be a topological space. The closure of Δ={(x,x):xX} in X×X is a symmetric relation on X. We characterise those equivalence relations on an infinite set that arise as the closure of the diagonal with respect to a T1-topology.