Ultrafilter with predecessors in Rudin-Frolík order
We construct a family of spaces with “nice” structure which is universal in the class of all compact metrizable spaces of large transfinite dimension , or, equivalently, of small transfinite dimension ; that is, the family consists of compact metrizable spaces whose transfinite dimension is , and every compact metrizable space with transfinite dimension is embeddable in a space of the family. We show that the least possible cardinality of such a universal family is equal to the least possible...
If is a space, then the weak extent of is the cardinal If is an open cover of , then there exists such that and . In this note, we show that if is a normal space such that and , then does not have a closed discrete subset of cardinality . We show that this result cannot be strengthened in ZFC to get that the extent of is smaller than , even if the condition that is replaced by the stronger condition that is separable.
We study the behaviour of ℵ-compactness, extent and Lindelöf number in lexicographic products of linearly ordered spaces. It is seen, in particular, that for the case that all spaces are bounded all these properties behave very well when taking lexicographic products. We also give characterizations of these notions for generalized ordered spaces.
A subset of a Hausdorff space is called an H-set in if for every open family in such that there exists a countable subfamily of such that . In this paper we introduce a new cardinal function and show that for every H-set of a Hausdorff space .