Separating maps and the nonarchimedean Hewitt theorem
Dado un espacio T3α (X,T), es posible obtener una compactificación T2 del mismo, mediante ultrafiltros asociados a ciertas bases distinguidas de cerrados de (X,T) (Frink [4]). Se plantea así el problema siguiente: ¿Puede obtenerse toda compactificación T2 de (X,T) por este método? Desde el año 1964 en que Frink lo planteó, este interrogante ha tenido respuestas afirmativas parciales. Sin embargo, la solución definitiva es negativa.
For a cardinal , we say that a subset of a space is -compact in if for every continuous function , is a compact subset of . If is a -compact subset of a space , then denotes the degree of -compactness of in . A space is called -pseudocompact if is -compact into itself. For each cardinal , we give an example of an -pseudocompact space such that is not pseudocompact: this answers a question posed by T. Retta in “Some cardinal generalizations of pseudocompactness”...
A space is truly weakly pseudocompact if is either weakly pseudocompact or Lindelöf locally compact. We prove: (1) every locally weakly pseudocompact space is truly weakly pseudocompact if it is either a generalized linearly ordered space, or a proto-metrizable zero-dimensional space with for every ; (2) every locally bounded space is truly weakly pseudocompact; (3) for , the -Lindelöfication of a discrete space of cardinality is weakly pseudocompact if .
The class of Hausdorff spaces (or of Tychonoff spaces) which admit a Hausdorff (respectively Tychonoff) sequentially compact extension has not been characterized. We give some new conditions, in particular, we prove that every Tychonoff locally sequentially compact space has a Tychonoff one-point sequentially compact extension. We also give some results about extension of functions and about lattice properties of the family of all minimal sequentially compact extensions of a given space.