Finitely fibered Rosenthal compacta and trees (Q542058)

A compact Hausdorff space is \(n\)-fibered if it has an at most \(n\)-to-1 continuous map onto a second countable space. The space \(K\) is \(n\)-determined if there are a second countable space S and an upper semi-continuous map \(\phi : S \to [K]^n\) such that \(K = \cup_{s \in S} \phi (s)\). This paper studies some topological properties of trees with the interval topology. It is shown that for a tree \(T\), its one-point compactification \(\alpha T\) is 2-determined if and only if \(T\) is \(\mathbb R\)-embeddable and \(|T| \leq 2^{\aleph_0}\). If T is an (\(\mathbb R\cdot \mathbb R\))-embeddable tree of cardinality \(\leq 2^{\aleph_0}\) (where \(\mathbb R\cdot \mathbb R\) is the lexicographic product of the lines \(\mathbb R\)), then \(\alpha T\) is 3-determined. In characterizing trees which admit a 2-fibered compactification, the authors also show that every \(\mathbb R\)-embeddable tree of cardinality \(\leq 2^{\aleph_0}\) has a 2-fibered compactification which is Rosenthal compact, i.e., homeomorphic to a subspace of the family of Baire-1 functions on a complete separable metric space. Responding to the work by \textit{R. Hayden} on renorming properties of spaces of the form \(C_0(T)\), the Banach space of continuous real-valued functions ``vanishing at \(\infty\)'', where \(\mathbb T\) is a tree [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 78, No.~3, 541--584 (1999; Zbl 1036.46003)], the authors use their results to construct two examples of trees whose one-point compactifications are Rosenthal compact and whose spaces of continuous functions have a Kedec renorming, i.e., a renorming such that the weak and norm topologies coincide on the unit sphere, as well as rotund (strictly convex) renormings.