P-ideals and F-ideals in rings of continuous functions
It is shown that the existence of a biseparating map between a large class of spaces of vector-valued continuous functions A(X,E) and A(Y,F) implies that some compactifications of X and Y are homeomorphic. In some cases, conditions are given to warrant the existence of a homeomorphism between the realcompactifications of X and Y; in particular we find remarkable differences with respect to the scalar context: namely, if E and F are infinite-dimensional and T: C*(X,E) → C*(Y,F) is a biseparating...
Let , and denote the -groups of integer-valued, rational-valued and real-valued continuous functions on a topological space , respectively. Characterizations are given for the extensions to be rigid, major, and dense.
We prove that a Hausdorff space is locally compact if and only if its topology coincides with the weak topology induced by . It is shown that for a Hausdorff space , there exists a locally compact Hausdorff space such that . It is also shown that for locally compact spaces and , if and only if . Prime ideals in are uniquely represented by a class of prime ideals in . -compact spaces are introduced and it turns out that a locally compact space is -compact if and only if every...