Statistical compactness (Q2679808)

\textit{H. Fast} [Colloq. Math. 2, 241--244 (1951; Zbl 0044.33605)] introduced the concept of statistical convergence which is a generalization of usual convergence of sequences and is based on the natural density of subsets of natural numbers. Later it has been generalized and explored in various articles. In this paper the authors give some results which are organized as follows. In Section~2, mainly two possible ways for defining convergence of a subsequence of a sequence are discussed, one of which is considered with proper reason explained by giving suitable examples. In Section~3, a variant of compactness, called statistical compactness, is defined in \(\mathbb{R}^p\). It is shown that this kind of compactness is different from the usual/standard notion of compactness. Properties showing similarities and differences are incorporated. A characterization of statistical compactness of subsets of \(\mathbb{R}^p\) in terms of the Cantor-Bendixson derivative is given.