It is shown that no generalized Luzin space condenses onto the unit interval and that the discrete sum of ${\aleph }_1$ copies of the Cantor set consistently does not condense onto a connected compact space. This answers two questions from [2].

We consider the spaces called $Seq\left(u_t\right)$, constructed on the set $Seq$ of all finite sequences of natural numbers using ultrafilters $u_t$ to define the topology. For such spaces, we discuss continuity, homogeneity, and rigidity. We prove that $S\left(u_t\right)$ is homogeneous if and only if all the ultrafilters $u_t$ have the same Rudin-Keisler type. We proved that a space of Louveau, and in certain cases, a space of Sirota, are homeomorphic to $Seq\left(p\right)$ (i.e., $u_t=p$ for all $t\in Seq$). It follows that for a Ramsey ultrafilter $p$, $Seq\left(p\right)$ is a topological group....

We prove a Dichotomy Theorem: for each Hausdorff compactification $bG$ of an arbitrary topological group $G$, the remainder $bG\setminus G$ is either pseudocompact or Lindelöf. It follows that if a remainder of a topological group is paracompact or Dieudonne complete, then the remainder is Lindelöf, and the group is a paracompact $p$-space. This answers a question in A.V. Arhangel’skii, Some connections between properties of topological groups and of their remainders, Moscow Univ. Math. Bull. 54:3 (1999), 1–6. It is...

A refined common generalization of known theorems (Arhangel’skii, Michael, Popov and Rančin) on the Fréchetness of products is proved. A new characterization, in terms of products, of strongly Fréchet topologies is provided.

Let X be an infinite set, and (X) the Boolean algebra of subsets of X. We consider the following statements: BPI(X): Every proper filter of (X) can be extended to an ultrafilter. UF(X): (X) has a free ultrafilter. We will show in ZF (i.e., Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory without the Axiom of Choice) that the following four statements are equivalent: (i) BPI(ω). (ii) The Tychonoff product $2^{ℝ}$, where 2 is the discrete space 0,1, is compact. (iii) The Tychonoff product ${[0,1]}^{ℝ}$ is compact. (iv) In a Boolean algebra...

Let $G$ be a group, $\beta G$ be the Stone-Čech compactification of $G$ endowed with the structure of a right topological semigroup and $G^{*}=\beta G\setminus G$. Given any subset $A$ of $G$ and $p\in G^{*}$, we define the $p$-companion ${\Delta }_p\left(A\right)=A^{*}\cap Gp$ of $A$, and characterize the subsets with finite and discrete ultracompanions.

Given a free ultrafilter $p$ on $\mathbb{N}$ and a space $X$, we say that $x\in X$ is the $p$-limit point of a sequence ${\left(x_n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ in $X$ (in symbols, $x=p$-${lim}_{n\to \infty }{x}_n$) if for every neighborhood $V$ of $x$, $\{n\in \mathbb{N}:x_n\in V\}\in p$. By using $p$-limit points from a suitable metric space, we characterize the selective ultrafilters on $\mathbb{N}$ and the $P$-points of ${\mathbb{N}}^{*}=\beta \left(\mathbb{N}\right)\setminus \mathbb{N}$. In this paper, we only consider dynamical systems $(X,f)$, where $X$ is a compact metric space. For a free ultrafilter $p$ on ${\mathbb{N}}^{*}$, the function $f^p:X\to X$ is defined by $f^p\left(x\right)=p$-${lim}_{n\to \infty }{f}^n\left(x\right)$ for each $x\in X$. These functions are not continuous in general. For a...

Dans cet article, on développe, pour les espaces paracompacts, une méthode de construction analogue à la construction par récurrence sur les squelettes dans les $CW$-complexes. On l’applique à des problèmes de prolongement ainsi qu’à l’existence de fonctions canoniques dans les nerfs de recouvrements fermés.