Yakovlev [On bicompacta in $\Sigma$-products and related spaces, Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin. 21.2 (1980), 263–283] showed that any Eberlein compactum is hereditarily $\sigma$-metacompact. We show that this property actually characterizes Eberlein compacta among compact spaces of finite metrizability number. Uniformly Eberlein compacta and Corson compacta of finite metrizability number can be characterized in an analogous way.

We prove that every planar rational compactum with rim-type ≤ α, where α is a countable ordinal greater than 0, can be topologically embedded into a planar rational (locally connected) continuum with rim-type ≤ α.

Let X be a connected locally compact metric space. It is known that if X is locally connected, then the space of ends (Freudenthal ends), EX, can be represented as the inverse limit of the set (space) S(X C) of components of X C, i.e., as the inverse limit of the inverse system $$EX=\underleftarrow{lim}\left(S(X\setminus C)\right),inclusions,CcompactinX)$$ . In this paper, the above result is significantly improved. It is shown that for a space which is not locally connected, we can replace the space of components by the space of quasicomponents Q(X C) of X C. The following...