Recurrent functions on compact spaces.
We say that a cardinal function reflects an infinite cardinal , if given a topological space with , there exists with . We investigate some problems, discussed by Hodel and Vaughan in Reflection theorems for cardinal functions, Topology Appl. 100 (2000), 47–66, and Juhász in Cardinal functions and reflection, Topology Atlas Preprint no. 445, 2000, related to the reflection for the cardinal functions character and pseudocharacter. Among other results, we present some new equivalences with...
We deal with a conjectured dichotomy for compact Hausdorff spaces: each such space contains a non-trivial converging ω-sequence or a non-trivial converging ω₁-sequence. We establish that this dichotomy holds in a variety of models; these include the Cohen models, the random real models and any model obtained from a model of CH by an iteration of property K posets. In fact in these models every compact Hausdorff space without non-trivial converging ω₁-sequences is first-countable and, in addition,...
We consider the property of relative compactness of subspaces of Hausdorff spaces. Several examples of relatively compact spaces are given. We prove that the property of being a relatively compact subspace of a Hausdorff spaces is strictly stronger than being a regular space and strictly weaker than being a Tychonoff space.
A space is said to be nearly pseudocompact iff is dense in . In this paper relatively realcompact sets are defined, and it is shown that a space is nearly pseudocompact iff every relatively realcompact open set is relatively compact. Other equivalences of nearly pseudocompactness are obtained and compared to some results of Blair and van Douwen.
In ZF, i.e., the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory minus the Axiom of Choice AC, we investigate the relationship between the Tychonoff product , where 2 is 2 = 0,1 with the discrete topology, and the Stone space S(X) of the Boolean algebra of all subsets of X, where X = ω,ℝ. We also study the possible placement of well-known topological statements which concern the cited spaces in the hierarchy of weak choice principles.