Compact-to-Hausdorff homeomorphism criterion
A continuous bijection from a compact space to a Hausdorff space is a homeomorphism.
Compact-to-Hausdorff homeomorphism criterion. Let be a continuous bijection. If is compact and is Hausdorff, then is a homeomorphism.
Proof
Indeed, every closed subset of is compact, its image under is compact, and compact subsets of are closed. Thus is a closed map, so is continuous.
Metric spaces
In particular, the criterion applies to a continuous bijection from a compact metric space to any metric space.