Splittability over some classes of Corson compact spaces (Q2261504)

The authors study splittability over a class of spaces \(\mathcal P\) and related properties; a space \(X\) is \textit{splittable} over \(\mathcal P\) if for any \(A \subset X\) there exists a continuous map \(f:X \to Y\) such that \(Y \in \mathcal P\) and \(A = f^{-1}f(A)\). For some nice classes \(\mathcal P\) it is shown that a compact space \(X\) is splittable over \(\mathcal P\) if and only if every function \(f \in \mathbb R^X\) is reachable from \(C_p(X)\) by a set belonging to \(\mathcal P\), i.e. there exists a set \(P \subset C_p(X)\) such that \(P\in\mathcal P\) and \(f\in \overline{P}\) (the bar denotes the closure in \(\mathbb R^X\)). Answering a question of the first author, it is established that a weakly Corson compact scattered space is Eberlein compact. It is also proved that under \(V = L\), a compact space \(X\) is splittable over the class of Eberlein (Gul'ko, Corson, resp.) compact spaces if and only if \(X\) is Eberlein (Gul'ko, Corson, resp.) compact. The last section contains a list of related open problems.