Almost contra-precontinuous functions.
We define two cardinal invariants of the continuum which arise naturally from combinatorially and topologically appealing properties of almost disjoint families of sets of the natural numbers. These are the never soft and never countably paracompact numbers. We show that these cardinals must both be equal to under the effective weak diamond principle , answering questions of da Silva S.G., On the presence of countable paracompactness, normality and property in spaces from almost disjoint families,...
We consider the question: when does a Ψ-space satisfy property (a)? We show that if then the Ψ-space Ψ(A) satisfies property (a), but in some Cohen models the negation of CH holds and every uncountable Ψ-space fails to satisfy property (a). We also show that in a model of Fleissner and Miller there exists a Ψ-space of cardinality which has property (a). We extend a theorem of Matveev relating the existence of certain closed discrete subsets with the failure of property (a).
We introduce a new class of functions called almost -closed and use the functions to improve several preservation theorems of normality and regularity and also their generalizations. The main result of the paper is that normality and weak normality are preserved under almost -closed continuous surjections.
A weak form of the constructively important notion of locatedness is lifted from the context of a metric space to that of a uniform space. Certain fundamental results about almost located and totally bounded sets are then proved.
Let G be a countably infinite group. We show that for every finite absolute coretract S, there is a regular left invariant topology on G whose ultrafilter semigroup is isomorphic to S. As consequences we prove that (1) there is a right maximal idempotent in βG∖G which is not strongly right maximal, and (2) for each combination of the properties of being extremally disconnected, irresolvable, and nodec, except for the combination (-,-,+), there is a corresponding regular almost maximal left invariant...
We prove that the interval topology of an Archimedean atomic lattice effect algebra is Hausdorff whenever the set of all atoms of is almost orthogonal. In such a case is order continuous. If moreover is complete then order convergence of nets of elements of is topological and hence it coincides with convergence in the order topology and this topology is compact Hausdorff compatible with a uniformity induced by a separating function family on corresponding to compact and cocompact elements....
We provide a new generalization of realcompactness based on ultrafilters of cozero sets and contrast it with almost realcompactness.