Proof: We prove that any neighbourhood of an arbitrary
in the compact-open topology contains a neighbourhood of
in the topology of uniform convergence on compact subsets of
. Thus, let
be arbitrary. Thus, suppose that
, where
is compact and non-empty and
is open; any neighbourhood of
with respect to the compact-open topology will be the finite intersection of sets of this form. Let now
be arbitrary. By the definition of the topology induced by a uniform space, the set of those entourages
of
such that
is nonempty. Moreover, for each such
, we may choose an entourage
of
such that
. For each such entourage, let
be an open neighbourhood of
such that
. We shall denote the collection of all such
by
. Then the union of all these
, ie. the collection
,
构成
的一个开覆盖,因为每个
都是非空的,因此包含一个包含
的开集。但
是紧致的,所以我们可以选择一个有限子覆盖
。根据定义,每个
都与之前定义的
之一相同,因此存在一个伴随
和一个点
使得
且
。现在定义
.
我们断言
是
的一个邻域,它包含在
内。事实上,设
。如果
是任意的,则存在一个
使得
。从
的定义,我们推断出
。然而,我们也知道
,因此
,由此得出
。由于
是任意的,因此
且
。 
Proof: We prove that both topologies generate the same neighbourhood systems. In view of the fact that the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets on spaces of continuous functions is at least as fine as the compact-open topology, it is sufficient to show that any neighbourhood of an arbitrary
with respect to the topology of uniform convergence on compact subsets contains a neighbourhood of
with respect to the compact-open topology. Hence, let
be any entourage of
and let
be compact, so that
represents an arbitrary element of the canonical neighbourhood basis of
with respect to the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets. We choose an entourage
of
such that
. Now
is locally compact, so that for each point
, the collection of compact neighbourhoods
of
such that
is non-empty. The collection of all those
we shall denote by
. Now the collection of all
(where
ranges over all of
) is an open cover of
, whence we may choose a finite subcover
. Since the interior is a subset of its original set, the sets
cover
. Moreover, by definition, each
has an
such that
. We claim that

包含在
内。事实上,假设
,令
。令
使得
。由于
,特别是
。但是
也是,因此
。因此,
,
由于
是任意的,所以
. 