In this short article we answer the question posed in Ghadermazi M., Karamzadeh O.A.S., Namdari M., On the functionally countable subalgebra of , Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 129 (2013), 47–69. It is shown that is isomorphic to some ring of continuous functions if and only if is functionally countable. For a strongly zero-dimensional space , this is equivalent to say that is functionally countable. Hence for every -space it is equivalent to pseudo--compactness.
Blum and Swaminathan [Pacific J. Math. 93 (1981), 251–260] introduced the notion of -fixedness for set-valued mappings, and characterized realcompactness by means of continuous selections for Tychonoff spaces of non-measurable cardinal. Using their method, we obtain another characterization of realcompactness, but without any cardinal assumption. We also characterize Dieudonné completeness and Lindelöf property in similar formulations.
A well known theorem of W.W. Comfort and K.A. Ross, stating that every pseudocompact group is -embedded in its Weil completion [5] (which is a compact group), is extended to some new classes of topological groups, and the proofs are very transparent, short and elementary (the key role in the proofs belongs to Lemmas 1.1 and 4.1). In particular, we introduce a new notion of canonical uniform tightness of a topological group and prove that every -dense subspace of a topological group , such...
For a topological property P, we say that a space X is star Pif for every open cover Uof the space X there exists Y ⊂ X such that St(Y,U) = X and Y has P. We consider star countable and star Lindelöf spaces establishing, among other things, that there exists first countable pseudocompact spaces which are not star Lindelöf. We also describe some classes of spaces in which star countability is equivalent to countable extent and show that a star countable space with a dense σ-compact subspace can have...