An answer to a question on hyperspaces
We say that a space has the discrete countable chain condition (DCCC for short) if every discrete family of nonempty open subsets of is countable. A space has a zeroset diagonal if there is a continuous mapping with , where . In this paper, we prove that every first countable DCCC space with a zeroset diagonal has cardinality at most .
As shown by Telgársky and Scheepers, winning strategies in the Menger game characterize -compactness amongst metrizable spaces. This is improved by showing that winning Markov strategies in the Menger game characterize -compactness amongst regular spaces, and that winning strategies may be improved to winning Markov strategies in second-countable spaces. An investigation of 2-Markov strategies introduces a new topological property between -compact and Menger spaces.
We prove for a subspace of a -space , is (strictly) Aull-paracompact in and is Hausdorff in if and only if is strongly star-normal in . This result provides affirmative answers to questions of A.V. Arhangel’skii–I.Ju. Gordienko [3] and of A.V. Arhangel’skii [2].