We use Tsirelson’s Banach space ([2]) to define an $F_{\sigma }$ P-ideal which refutes a conjecture of Mazur and Kechris (see [12, 9, 8]).

For each ordinal 1 ≤ α < ω₁ we present separable metrizable spaces $X_{\alpha }$, $Y_{\alpha }$ and $Z_{\alpha }$ such that (i) $f{X}_{\alpha },f{Y}_{\alpha },f{Z}_{\alpha }=\omega ₀$, where f is either trdef or ₀-trsur, (ii) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{X}_{\alpha }=\infty$ and $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{X}_{\alpha }=-1$, (iii) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Y}_{\alpha }=-1$ and $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Y}_{\alpha }=\infty$, and (iv) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=\infty$ and $A(\alpha +1)\cap M(\alpha +1)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=-1$. We also show that there exists no separable metrizable space $W_{\alpha }$ with $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }\ne \infty$, $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }\ne \infty$ and $A\left(\alpha \right)\cap M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }=\infty$, where A(α) (resp. M(α)) is the absolutely additive (resp. multiplicative) Borel class.

The main aim of this paper is to give a simpler proof of the following assertion. Let A be an analytic non-σ-porous subset of a locally compact metric space, E. Then there exists a compact non-σ-porous subset of A. Moreover, we prove the above assertion also for σ-P-porous sets, where P is a porosity-like relation on E satisfying some additional conditions. Our result covers σ-⟨g⟩-porous sets, σ-porous sets, and σ-symmetrically porous sets.

We construct in Bell-Kunen’s model: (a) a group maximal topology on a countable infinite Boolean group of weight ${\aleph }_1<ℭ$ and (b) a countable irresolvable dense subspace of $2^{{\omega }_1}$. In this model $ℭ={\aleph }_{{\omega }_1}$.