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
,
構成
的一個開覆蓋,因為每個
都是非空的,因此包含一個包含
的開集。但
是緊緻的,所以我們可以選擇一個有限子覆蓋
。根據定義,每個
都與之前定義的
之一相同,因此存在一個伴隨
和一個點
使得
且
。現在定義
.
我們斷言
是
的一個鄰域,它包含在
內。事實上,設
。如果
是任意的,則存在一個
使得
。從
的定義,我們推斷出
。然而,我們也知道
,因此
,由此得出
。由於
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
內。事實上,假設
,令
。令
使得
。由於
,特別是
。但是
也是,因此
。因此,
,
由於
是任意的,所以
. 