If you have a continuous surjective function which is not injective, and you limit the domain of the function such that the function remains surjective and becomes injective, is continuity always preserved?
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If $X,Y$ are topological spaces and $f\colon X\to Y$ is continuous, and $A\subseteq X$ is a subspace, then the restriction $f|_A$ is still continuous.
Indeed, for any open $U\subseteq Y$, we have that $(f|_A)^{-1}(U)=A\cap f^{-1}(U)$ is open in $A$ under the subspace topology.
Hagen von Eitzen
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