Collectionwise Hausdorff: Incompactness at singulars (Q1112363)

Under set theoretic hypotheses, we construct a \(\lambda\)-collectionwise Hausdorff not \(\lambda^+\)-collectionwise Hausdorff space of character c for certain singular cardinals \(\lambda\). For example if \(V=L\), and cf(\(\lambda)\) is not weakly compact, or if there are no inner models with large cardinals, \(\lambda\) is singular strong limit, and cf(\(\lambda)\) is the successor of a singular strong limit. Moreover, after forcing collapsing c to \(\omega\) these spaces retain their properties; thus we obtain first countable examples.