We study the c₀-content of a seminormalized basic sequence (χₙ) in a Banach space, by the use of ordinal indices (taking values up to ω₁) that determine dichotomies at every ordinal stage, based on the Ramsey-type principle for every countable ordinal, obtained earlier by the author. We introduce two such indices, the c₀-index ${\xi }^{\left(\chi ₙ\right)}₀$ and the semibounded completeness index ${\xi }_b^{\left(\chi ₙ\right)}$, and we examine their relationship. The countable ordinal values that these indices can take are always of the form...

We call a topological space $\kappa$-compact if every subset of size $\kappa$ has a complete accumulation point in it. Let $\Phi (\mu ,\kappa ,\lambda )$ denote the following statement: $\mu <\kappa <\lambda =cf\left(\lambda \right)$ and there is $\{S_{\xi }:\xi <\lambda \}\subset {\left[\kappa \right]}^{\mu }$ such that $\left|\right\{\xi :|S_{\xi }\cap A|=\mu \left\}\right|<\lambda$ whenever $A\in {\left[\kappa \right]}^{<\kappa }$. We show that if $\Phi (\mu ,\kappa ,\lambda )$ holds and the space $X$ is both $\mu$-compact and $\lambda$-compact then $X$ is $\kappa$-compact as well. Moreover, from PCF theory we deduce $\Phi (cf\left(\kappa \right),\kappa ,{\kappa }^{+})$ for every singular cardinal $\kappa$. As a corollary we get that a linearly Lindelöf and ${\aleph }_{\omega }$-compact space is uncountably compact, that is $\kappa$-compact for all uncountable cardinals...

A subset $A$ of a Hausdorff space $X$ is called an $\omega$H-set in $X$ if for every open family $𝒰$ in $X$ such that $A\subset \bigcup 𝒰$ there exists a countable subfamily $𝒱$ of $𝒰$ such that $A\subset \bigcup \{\overline{V}:V\in 𝒱\}$. In this paper we introduce a new cardinal function $t_{s\theta }$ and show that $\left|A\right|\le 2^{t_{s\theta }\left(X\right){\psi }_c\left(X\right)}$ for every $\omega$H-set $A$ of a Hausdorff space $X$.