Elementary chains and compact spaces with a small diagonal

DOI10.1016/J.INDAG.2012.02.008MaRDI QIDQ441367zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Dow, K. P. Hart

Publication date 23 August 2012

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1736

zbMATH Keywords

chains of elementary substructuresmetrizablesmall diagonal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consistency and independence results (03E35) Convergence in general topology (sequences, filters, limits, convergence spaces, nets, etc.) (54A20) Consistency and independence results in general topology (54A35) Compactness (54D30) Base properties of topological spaces (54D70) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35)

Abstract: It is a well known open problem if, in ZFC, each compact space with a small diagonal is metrizable. We explore properties of compact spaces with a small diagonal using elementary chains of submodels. We prove that ccc subspaces of such spaces have countable pi-weight. We generalize a result of Gruenhage about spaces which are metrizably fibered. Finally we discover that if there is a Luzin set of reals, then every compact space with a small diagonal will have many points of countable character.

Review text

A~space~\(X\) is said to have a~small diagonal, if every uncountable subset of~\(X^2\) that is disjoint from the diagonal has an uncountable subset whose closure is disjoint from the diagonal. By a~csD-space is meant a~compact Hausdorff space with a~small diagonal. The authors explore properties of csD-spaces using elementary chains of substructures. They prove that ccc subspaces of csD-spaces have countable \(\pi\)-weight, they generalize a~result of Gruenhage about spaces which are metrizably fibered, and they prove that if there is a~Luzin set of reals, then every csD-space has many points of countable character. The main question on csD-spaces, namely whether they are metrizable, remains open.

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