Compatible algebraic structures on scattered compacta

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2005.01.004MaRDI QIDQ818391zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Taras Banakh, O. Gutik, M. Rajagopalan

Publication date 20 March 2006

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2005.01.004

compact scattered topological space scattered height separately continuous semilattice operation topological semilattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cardinal characteristics of the continuum (03E17) Structure of topological semigroups (22A15) Topological semilattices, lattices and applications (22A26) Compactness (54D30) Scattered spaces (54G12) Counterexamples in general topology (54G20) Topological representations of algebraic systems (54H10) Topological lattices, etc. (topological aspects) (54H12)

Review text

A subtitle of the present paper might be ``Does every scattered compact space admit a continuous semilattice operation? The question was posed in an earlier paper by \textit{O. V. Gutik} and \textit{M. Rajagopalan} and \textit{K. Sundaresan} [J. Aust. Math. Soc. 72, No. 3, 349--362 (2002; Zbl 1024.22001)]. In the paper under review it is shown that the answer is NO. Denote by \(\psi_{\mathcal F}(\mathbb{N})\) the one-point compactification of the well-known locally compact space \(\mathbb{N}\cup{\mathcal F}\) (\(\mathbb{N}\) is a countable discrete space, \({\mathcal F}\) is a maximal almost disjoint (MAD) family of infinite subsets of \(\mathbb{N}\), the points of \(\mathbb{N}\) are isolated and, for \(A\in{\mathcal F}\), the sets \(\{A\}\cup A\setminus K\), \(K\) is finite, form a base at \(\{A\}\)). Note that \(\mathbb{N}\) is not sequentially dense in \(\psi_{\mathcal F}(\mathbb{N})\). Theorem 3. For any infinite MAD family \({\mathcal F}\) on \(\mathbb{N}\) the space \(\psi_{\mathcal F}(\mathbb{N})\) is a scattered compact space with scattered height 2 admitting no separately continuous semilattice operation. On the other hand, besides other nice results, the following has been proved: Theorem 4. If a separable compact scattered space \(X\) of scattered height 2 admits a separately continuous semilattice operation, then the set of all isolated points of \(X\) is sequentially dense in \(X\). At the end, six related problems are posed.

Recommendations

Cites work

Cited in

(3)

This page was built for publication: Compatible algebraic structures on scattered compacta

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q818391)