For every discrete group $G$, the Stone-Čech compactification $\beta G$ of $G$ has a natural structure of a compact right topological semigroup. An ultrafilter $p\in G^{*}$, where $G^{*}=\beta G\setminus G$, is called right cancellable if, given any $q,r\in G^{*}$, $qp=rp$ implies $q=r$. For every right cancellable ultrafilter $p\in G^{*}$, we denote by $G\left(p\right)$ the group $G$ endowed with the strongest left invariant topology in which $p$ converges to the identity of $G$. For any countable group $G$ and any right cancellable ultrafilters $p,q\in G^{*}$, we show that $G\left(p\right)$ is homeomorphic to $G\left(q\right)$ if and only if...

L'operazione «anti( )» di Paul Bankston fu introdotta in contesto della famiglia di tutti gli spazii topologici. Però, per molte ricerche ci conviene lavorare esclusivamente in una classe costretta di spazii di cui la struttura e ricca abbastanza di facilitare il ragionamento. In quest'articolo descriviamo come trasferire anti ( ), e concetti allacciati, dentro una tale classe costretta; con riferimento speciale all'esistenza di «pre-antis».

We prove that (A) if a countably compact space is the union of countably many $D$ subspaces then it is compact; (B) if a compact $T_2$ space is the union of fewer than $N\left(ℝ\right)$ = $cov\left(ℳ\right)$ left-separated subspaces then it is scattered. Both (A) and (B) improve results of Tkačenko from 1979; (A) also answers a question that was raised by Arhangel’skiǐ and improves a result of Gruenhage.

We show that there is a nowhere ccc σ-compact space which has a remote point. We show that it is consistent to have a non-compact σ-compact separable space X such that every point of the remainder is a limit of a countable discrete subset of non-isolated points of X. This example shows that one cannot prove in ZFC that every locally compact non-compact space has discrete weak P-points.

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....

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.