Ordered topological spaces and the coproduct of bounded distributive lattices
For a compact monotonically normal space X we prove: (1) has a dense set of points with a well-ordered neighborhood base (and so is co-absolute with a compact orderable space); (2) each point of has a well-ordered neighborhood -base (answering a question of Arhangel’skii); (3) is hereditarily paracompact iff has countable tightness. In the process we introduce weak-tightness, a notion key to the results above and yielding some cardinal function results on monotonically normal...
The notion of the ordinal product of a transfinite sequence of topological spaces which is an extension of the finite product operation is introduced. The dimensions of finite and infinite ordinal products are estimated. In particular, the dimensions of ordinary products of Smirnov's [S] and Henderson's [He1] compacta are calculated.