Small systems – on approximation of compact sets of measurable functions to compact subsets of
For a cardinal , we say that a subset of a space is -compact in if for every continuous function , is a compact subset of . If is a -compact subset of a space , then denotes the degree of -compactness of in . A space is called -pseudocompact if is -compact into itself. For each cardinal , we give an example of an -pseudocompact space such that is not pseudocompact: this answers a question posed by T. Retta in “Some cardinal generalizations of pseudocompactness”...
The properties of -factorizable groups and their subgroups are studied. We show that a locally compact group is -factorizable if and only if is -compact. It is proved that a subgroup of an -factorizable group is -factorizable if and only if is -embedded in . Therefore, a subgroup of an -factorizable group need not be -factorizable, and we present a method for constructing non--factorizable dense subgroups of a special class of -factorizable groups. Finally, we construct a closed...