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.

We present an example of a connected, Polish, countable dense homogeneous space X that is not strongly locally homogeneous. In fact, a nontrivial homeomorphism of X is the identity on no nonempty open subset of X.

We show that ${\omega }^{*}\setminus \left\{p\right\}$ is not normal, if $p$ is a limit point of some countable subset of ${\omega }^{*}$, consisting of points of character ${\omega }_1$. Moreover, such a point $p$ is a Kunen point and a super Kunen point.

A Mazurkiewicz set $M$ is a subset of a plane with the property that each straight line intersects $M$ in exactly two points. We modify the original construction to obtain a Mazurkiewicz set which does not contain vertices of an equilateral triangle or a square. This answers some questions by L.D. Loveland and S.M. Loveland. We also use similar methods to construct a bounded noncompact, nonconnected generalized Mazurkiewicz set.

Let a space $X$ be Tychonoff product ${\prod }_{\alpha <\tau }{X}_{\alpha }$ of $\tau$-many Tychonoff nonsingle point spaces $X_{\alpha }$. Let Suslin number of $X$ be strictly less than the cofinality of $\tau$. Then we show that every point of remainder is a non-normality point of its Čech–Stone compactification $\beta X$. In particular, this is true if $X$ is either $R^{\tau }$ or ${\omega }^{\tau }$ and a cardinal $\tau$ is infinite and not countably cofinal.

The notion of quasi-p-boundedness for p ∈ ${\omega }^{*}$ is introduced and investigated. We characterize quasi-p-pseudocompact subsets of β(ω) containing ω, and we show that the concepts of RK-compatible ultrafilter and P-point in ${\omega }^{*}$ can be defined in terms of quasi-p-pseudocompactness. For p ∈ ${\omega }^{*}$, we prove that a subset B of a space X is quasi-p-bounded in X if and only if B × $P_{RK}\left(p\right)$ is bounded in X × $P_{RK}\left(p\right)$, if and only if $c{l}_{\beta \left(X\times P_{RK}\left(p\right)\right)}\left(B\times P_{RK}\left(p\right)\right)=c{l}_{\beta X}B\times \beta \left(\omega \right)$, where $P_{RK}\left(p\right)$ is the set of Rudin-Keisler predecessors of p.

We discuss the following result of A. Szymański in “Retracts and non-normality points" (2012), Corollary 3.5.: If $F$ is a closed subspace of ${\omega }^{*}$ and the $\pi$-weight of $F$ is countable, then every nonisolated point of $F$ is a non-normality point of ${\omega }^{*}$. We obtain stronger results for all types of points, excluding the limits of countable discrete sets considered in “Some non-normal subspaces of the Čech–Stone compactification of a discrete space” (1980) by A. Błaszczyk and A. Szymański. Perhaps our proofs...

We consider discrete dynamical systems whose phase spaces are compact metrizable countable spaces. In the first part of the article, we study some properties that guarantee the continuity of all functions of the corresponding Ellis semigroup. For instance, if every accumulation point of $X$ is fixed, we give a necessary and sufficient condition on a point $a\in X^{\text{'}}$ in order that all functions of the Ellis semigroup $E(X,f)$ be continuous at the given point $a$. In the second part, we consider transitive dynamical...

We calculate the singular homology and Čech cohomology groups of the Harmonic Archipelago. As a corollary, we prove that this space is not homotopy equivalent to the Griffiths space. This is interesting in view of Eda’s proof that the first singular homology groups of these spaces are isomorphic.

We prove that if the Euclidean plane ${ℝ}^2$ contains an uncountable collection of pairwise disjoint copies of a tree-like continuum X, then the symmetric span of X is zero, sX = 0. We also construct a modification of the Oversteegen-Tymchatyn example: for each ε > 0 there exists a tree $X\subset {ℝ}^2$ such that σX < ε but X cannot be covered by any 1-chain. These are partial solutions of some well-known problems in continua theory.