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In this paper we develop the semifilter approach to the classical Menger and Hurewicz properties and show that the small cardinal $𝔤$ is a lower bound of the additivity number of the $\sigma$-ideal generated by Menger subspaces of the Baire space, and under $𝔲<𝔤$ every subset $X$ of the real line with the property $Split(\Lambda ,\Lambda )$ is Hurewicz, and thus it is consistent with ZFC that the property $Split(\Lambda ,\Lambda )$ is preserved by unions of less than $𝔟$ subsets of the real line.

Developing the idea of assigning to a large cover of a topological space a corresponding semifilter, we show that every Menger topological space has the property ${\bigcup }_{fin}(𝒪,T^{*})$ provided $(𝔲<𝔤)$, and every space with the property ${\bigcup }_{fin}(𝒪,T^{*})$ is Hurewicz provided $({Depth}^{+}\left({\left[\omega \right]}^{{\aleph }_0}\right)\le 𝔟)$. Combining this with the results proven in cited literature, we settle all questions whether (it is consistent that) the properties $\text{P}$ and $\text{Q}$ [do not] coincide, where $\text{P}$ and $\text{Q}$ run over ${\bigcup }_{fin}(𝒪,\Gamma )$, ${\bigcup }_{fin}(𝒪,T)$, ${\bigcup }_{fin}(𝒪,T^{*})$, ${\bigcup }_{fin}(𝒪,\Omega )$, and ${\bigcup }_{fin}(𝒪,𝒪)$.

A classical theorem of Hurewicz characterizes spaces with the Hurewicz covering property as those having bounded continuous images in the Baire space. We give a similar characterization for spaces $X$ which have the Hurewicz property hereditarily. We proceed to consider the class of Arhangel’skii ${\alpha }_1$ spaces, for which every sheaf at a point can be amalgamated in a natural way. Let $C_p\left(X\right)$ denote the space of continuous real-valued functions on $X$ with the topology of pointwise convergence. Our main result...

For a non-isolated point $x$ of a topological space $X$ let ${\mathrm{nw}}_{\chi }\left(x\right)$ be the smallest cardinality of a family $𝒩$ of infinite subsets of $X$ such that each neighborhood $O\left(x\right)\subset X$ of $x$ contains a set $N\in 𝒩$. We prove that (a) each infinite compact Hausdorff space $X$ contains a non-isolated point $x$ with ${\mathrm{nw}}_{\chi }\left(x\right)={\aleph }_0$; (b) for each point $x\in X$ with ${\mathrm{nw}}_{\chi }\left(x\right)={\aleph }_0$ there is an injective sequence ${\left(x_n\right)}_{n\in \omega }$ in $X$ that $ℱ$-converges to $x$ for some meager filter $ℱ$ on $\omega$; (c) if a functionally Hausdorff space $X$ contains an $ℱ$-convergent injective sequence for some meager filter...