Powers of spaces of non-stationary ultrafilters
The Dugundji extension property can fail in ωµ -metrizable spaces
We show that there exist -metrizable spaces which do not have the Dugundji extension property ( with the countable box topology is such a space). This answers a question posed by the second author in 1972, and shows that certain results of van Douwen and Borges are false.
Almost disjoint families and property (a)
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).
The smallest number of free closed filters
Two spaces homeomorphic to
We consider the spaces called , constructed on the set of all finite sequences of natural numbers using ultrafilters to define the topology. For such spaces, we discuss continuity, homogeneity, and rigidity. We prove that is homogeneous if and only if all the ultrafilters have the same Rudin-Keisler type. We proved that a space of Louveau, and in certain cases, a space of Sirota, are homeomorphic to (i.e., for all ). It follows that for a Ramsey ultrafilter , is a topological group....
A countably compact, separable space which is not absolutely countably compact
We construct a space having the properties in the title, and with the same technique, a countably compact topological group which is not absolutely countably compact.
On Frolík’s characterization of class
Ordinal remainders of classical ψ-spaces
Let ω denote the set of natural numbers. We prove: for every mod-finite ascending chain of infinite subsets of ω, there exists , an infinite maximal almost disjoint family (MADF) of infinite subsets of the natural numbers, such that the Stone-Čech remainder βψ∖ψ of the associated ψ-space, ψ = ψ(ω,ℳ ), is homeomorphic to λ + 1 with the order topology. We also prove that for every λ < ⁺, where is the tower number, there exists a mod-finite ascending chain , hence a ψ-space with Stone-Čech remainder...
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