A unified theory of weak separation properties.
We show that AC is equivalent to the assertion that every compact completely regular topology can be extended to a compact Tychonoff topology.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 54H05, 03E15, 46B26We answer positively a question raised by S. Argyros: Given any coanalytic, nonalytic subset Σ′ of the irrationals, we construct, in Mercourakis space c1(Σ′), an adequate compact which is Gul’ko and not Talagrand. Further, given any Borel, non Fσ subset Σ′ of the irrationals, we construct, in c1(Σ′), an adequate compact which is Talagrand and not Eberlein.Supported by grants AV CR 101-90-03, and GA CR 201-01-1198
∗ Supported by Research grants GAUK 190/96 and GAUK 1/1998We prove that the dual unit ball of the space C0 [0, ω1 ) endowed with the weak* topology is not a Valdivia compact. This answers a question posed to the author by V. Zizler and has several consequences. Namely, it yields an example of an affine continuous image of a convex Valdivia compact (in the weak* topology of a dual Banach space) which is not Valdivia, and shows that the property of the dual unit ball being Valdivia is not an isomorphic...