This paper investigates necessary and sufficient conditions for a space to have an H-closed extension with countable remainder. For countable spaces we are able to give two characterizations of those spaces admitting an H-closed extension with countable remainder. The general case is more difficult, however, we arrive at a necessary condition — a generalization of Čech completeness, and several sufficient conditions for a space to have an H-closed extension with countable remainder. In particular,...

A probabilistic secret sharing scheme is a joint probability distribution of the shares and the secret together with a collection of secret recovery functions. The study of schemes using arbitrary probability spaces and unbounded number of participants allows us to investigate their abstract properties, to connect the topic to other branches of mathematics, and to discover new design paradigms. A scheme is perfect if unqualified subsets have no information on the secret, that is, their total share...

This work presents some cardinal inequalities in which appears the closed pseudo-character, ${\psi }_c$, of a space. Using one of them — ${\psi }_c\left(X\right)\le 2^{d\left(X\right)}$ for $T_2$ spaces — we improve, from $T_3$ to $T_2$ spaces, the well-known result that initially $\kappa$-compact $T_3$ spaces are $\lambda$-bounded for all cardinals $\lambda$ such that $2^{\lambda }\le \kappa$. And then, using an idea of A. Dow, we prove that initially $\kappa$-compact $T_2$ spaces are in fact compact for $\kappa =2^{F\left(X\right)}$, $2^{s\left(X\right)}$, $2^{t\left(X\right)}$, $2^{\chi \left(X\right)}$, $2^{{\psi }_c\left(X\right)}$ or $\kappa =max\{{\tau }^{+},{\tau }^{<\tau }\}$, where $\tau >t(p,X)$ for all $p\in X$.

We prove that, assuming MA, every crowded $T_0$ space $X$ is $\omega$-resolvable if it satisfies one of the following properties: (1) it contains a $\pi$-network of cardinality $<𝔠$ constituted by infinite sets, (2) $\chi \left(X\right)<𝔠$, (3) $X$ is a $T_2$ Baire space and $c\left(X\right)\le {\aleph }_0$ and (4) $X$ is a $T_1$ Baire space and has a network $𝒩$ with cardinality $<𝔠$ and such that the collection of the finite elements in it constitutes a $\sigma$-locally finite family. Furthermore, we prove that the existence of a $T_1$ Baire irresolvable space is equivalent to the existence of...

In this paper we show that a minimal space in which compact subsets are closed is countably compact. This answers a question posed in [1].

Let ${(e_{\beta }:𝐐\to Y_{\beta })}_{\beta \in \mathbf{\text{Ord}}}$ be the large source of epimorphisms in the category $\mathbf{\text{Ury}}$ of Urysohn spaces constructed in [2]. A sink ${(g_{\beta }:Y_{\beta }\to X)}_{\beta \in \mathbf{\text{Ord}}}$ is called natural, if $g_{\beta }\circ e_{\beta }=g_{{\beta }^{\text{'}}}\circ e_{{\beta }^{\text{'}}}$ for all $\beta ,{\beta }^{\text{'}}\in \mathbf{\text{Ord}}$. In this paper natural sinks are characterized. As a result it is shown that $\mathbf{\text{Ury}}$ permits no $(Epi,ℳ)$-factorization structure for arbitrary (large) sources.

In 1985, V. G. Pestov described a neighborhood base at the identity of free topological groups on a Tychonoff space in terms of the elements of the fine uniformity on the Tychonoff space. In this paper, we extend Postev’s description to the free paratopological groups where we introduce a neighborhood base at the identity of free paratopological groups on any topological space in terms of the elements of the fine quasiuniformity on the space.