mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

, a strong topology is a topology which is stronger than some other "default" topology. This term is used to describe different topologies depending on context, and it may refer to: * the final topology on the disjoint union * the topology arising from a norm * the strong operator topology * the strong topology (polar topology), which subsumes all topologies above. A topology τ is stronger than a topology σ (is a finer topology) if τ contains all the open sets of σ. In

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical ...

, it usually means the topology of an algebraic variety as

complex manifold In differential geometry and complex geometry, a complex manifold is a manifold with an atlas of charts to the open unit disc in \mathbb^n, such that the transition maps are holomorphic. The term complex manifold is variously used to mean a com ...

or subspace of complex projective space, as opposed to the Zariski topology (which is rarely even a Hausdorff space).

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