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We shall show several approximation theorems for the Hausdorff compactifications of metrizable spaces or locally compact Hausdorff spaces. It is shown that every compactification of the Euclidean n-space ℝⁿ is the supremum of some compactifications homeomorphic to a subspace of ${ℝ}^{n+1}$. Moreover, the following are equivalent for any connected locally compact Hausdorff space X: (i) X has no two-point compactifications, (ii) every compactification of X is the supremum of some compactifications whose remainder...

Let F = ind lim Fₙ be an infinite-dimensional LF-space with density dens F = τ ( ≥ ℵ ₀) such that some Fₙ is infinite-dimensional and dens Fₙ = τ. It is proved that every open subset of F is homeomorphic to the product of an ℓ₂(τ)-manifold and ${ℝ}^{\infty }=indlimℝⁿ$ (hence the product of an open subset of ℓ₂(τ) and ${ℝ}^{\infty }$). As a consequence, any two open sets in F are homeomorphic if they have the same homotopy type.

By Fin(X) (resp. $Fi{n}^k\left(X\right)$), we denote the hyperspace of all non-empty finite subsets of X (resp. consisting of at most k points) with the Vietoris topology. Let ℓ₂(τ) be the Hilbert space with weight τ and $\ell {₂}^f\left(\tau \right)$ the linear span of the canonical orthonormal basis of ℓ₂(τ). It is shown that if $E=\ell {₂}^f\left(\tau \right)$ or E is an absorbing set in ℓ₂(τ) for one of the absolute Borel classes ${}_{\alpha }\left(\tau \right)$ and ${}_{\alpha }\left(\tau \right)$ of weight ≤ τ (α > 0) then Fin(E) and each $Fi{n}^k\left(E\right)$ are homeomorphic to E. More generally, if X is a connected E-manifold then Fin(X) is homeomorphic...