Direct limits of Hausdorff spaces
We show that it is consistent with ZF that there is a dense-in-itself compact metric space which has the countable chain condition (ccc), but is neither separable nor second countable. It is also shown that has an open dense subspace which is not paracompact and that in ZF the Principle of Dependent Choice, DC, does not imply the disjoint union of metrizable spaces is normal.
Let be a Hausdorff space and let be one of the hyperspaces , , or ( a positive integer) with the Vietoris topology. We study the following disconnectedness properties for : extremal disconnectedness, being a -space, -space or weak -space and hereditary disconnectedness. Our main result states: if is Hausdorff and is a closed subset such that (a) both and are totally disconnected, (b) the quotient is hereditarily disconnected, then is hereditarily disconnected. We also...
Utilizing the discrete homotopy methods developed for uniform spaces by Berestovskii-Plaut, we define the critical spectrum Cr(X) of a metric space, generalizing to the non-geodesic case the covering spectrum defined by Sormani-Wei and the homotopy critical spectrum defined by Plaut-Wilkins. If X is geodesic, Cr(X) is the same as the homotopy critical spectrum, which differs from the covering spectrum by a factor of 3/2. The latter two spectra are known to be discrete for compact geodesic spaces,...
We investigate the following three questions: Let n ∈ ℕ. For which Hausdorff spaces X is it true that whenever Γ is an arbitrary (respectively finite-to-one, respectively injective) function from ℕⁿ to X, there must exist an infinite subset M of ℕ such that Γ[Mⁿ] is discrete? Of course, if n = 1 the answer to all three questions is "all of them". For n ≥ 2 the answers to the second and third questions are the same; in the case n = 2 that answer is "those for which there are only finitely many points...