# Neighborhood of diagonal

Consider a uniform space $X$ (with induced topology).

What of the following can be a subset of the other? Which of the following is always a subset of the other?

1. Neighborhood of the diagonal in the topology corresponding to $X\times X$.
2. The set of entourages of our uniformity.
• "...with induced topology"....Induced from where or what? – DonAntonio Sep 22 '13 at 21:18
• Induced by the uniform structure, presumably. – Daniel Fischer Sep 22 '13 at 21:19
• The entourages are always neighbourhoods of the diagonal in the induced topology. I'll leave finding the proof to you. – Daniel Fischer Sep 22 '13 at 21:20

As Daniel Fisher wrote in a comment, every entourage is a neighborhood of the diagonal. The converse fails, for example, if $X$ is the real line with the uniform structure induced by the usual metric. Specifically, $\{(x,y): y<x+e^{-x}\}$ is an open neighborhood of the diagonal, but not an entourage (because its upper boundary gets too close to the diagonal for large $x$).