Scattered compact sets in continuous images of Čech-complete spaces (Q2217252)

The authors generalize classical characterizations of scattered compact Hausdorff spaces to K-analytic spaces and, more generally, to functionally Hausdorff spaces with analyticity number less than the cardinality of the continuum. Below you find the main content of the paper, as extracted from the authors' abstract. Assume that a functionally Hausdorff space \(X\) is a continuous image of a Č{}ech-complete space \(P\) with Lindelöf number \(l(P)<\mathfrak c\). Then the following are equivalent: i) every compact space of \(X\) is scattered, ii) for every continuous map \(f:X\to Y\) to a functionally Hausdorff space \(Y\) the image \(f(X)\) has cardinality not exceeding \(\max\{l(P),\psi(Y)\}\), iii) no continuous map \(f:X\to [0,1]\) is surjective.