The structure of binary coproducts in the category of frames is analyzed, and the results are then applied widely in the study of compactness, local compactness (continuous frames), separatedness, pushouts and closed frame homomorphisms.

We show that for each natural number n > 1, it is consistent that there is a compact Hausdorff totally disconnected space $K_{2n}$ such that $C\left(K_{2n}\right)$ has no uncountable (semi)biorthogonal sequence ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of at most 2n-1 points of $K_{2n}$, but has biorthogonal systems ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of 2n points. This complements a result of Todorcevic which implies that it is consistent that such spaces do not exist: he proves that its is...

Let $X$ be the Tychonoff product ${\prod }_{\alpha <\tau }{X}_{\alpha }$ of $\tau$-many Tychonoff non-single point spaces $X_{\alpha }$. Let $p\in X^{*}$ be a point in the closure of some $G\subset X$ whose weak Lindelöf number is strictly less than the cofinality of $\tau$. Then we show that $\beta X\setminus \left\{p\right\}$ is not normal. Under some additional assumptions, $p$ is a butterfly-point in $\beta X$. In particular, this is true if either $X={\omega }^{\tau }$ or $X=R^{\tau }$ and $\tau$ is infinite and not countably cofinal.

A compact topological space K is in the class A if it is homeomorphic to a subspace H of [0,1]I, for some set of indexes I, such that, if L is the subset of H consisting of all {xi : i C I} with xi=0 except for a countable number of i's, then L is dense in H. In this paper we show that the class A of compact spaces is not stable under continuous maps. This solves a problem posed by Deville, Godefroy and Zizler.

A scadic space is a Hausdorff continuous image of a product of compact scattered spaces. We complete a theorem begun by G. Chertanov that will establish that for each scadic space X, χ(X) = w(X). A ξ-adic space is a Hausdorff continuous image of a product of compact ordinal spaces. We introduce an either-or chain condition called Property $R_{\lambda }^{\text{'}}$ which we show is satisfied by all ξ-adic spaces. Whereas Property $R_{\lambda }^{\text{'}}$ is productive, we show that a weaker (but more natural) Property $R_{\lambda }$ is not productive. Polyadic...

We prove that for an unbounded metric space $X$, the minimal character $𝗆\chi \left(\check{X}\right)$ of a point of the Higson corona $\check{X}$ of $X$ is equal to $𝔲$ if $X$ has asymptotically isolated balls and to $max\{𝔲,𝔡\}$ otherwise. This implies that under $𝔲<𝔡$ a metric space $X$ of bounded geometry is coarsely equivalent to the Cantor macro-cube $2^{<\mathbb{N}}$ if and only if $dim\left(\check{X}\right)=0$ and $𝗆\chi \left(\check{X}\right)=𝔡$. This contrasts with a result of Protasov saying that under CH the coronas of any two asymptotically zero-dimensional unbounded metric separable spaces are homeomorphic.