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Topological characterization of the small cardinal i

Antonio de Padua Franco-Filho (2003)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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We show that the small cardinal number i = min { | 𝒜 | : 𝒜 is a maximal independent family} has the following topological characterization: i = min { κ c : { 0 , 1 } κ has a dense irresolvable countable subspace}, where { 0 , 1 } κ denotes the Cantor cube of weight κ . As a consequence of this result, we have that the Cantor cube of weight c has a dense countable submaximal subspace, if we assume (ZFC plus i = c ), or if we work in the Bell-Kunen model, where i = 1 and c = ω 1 .