First countability, tightness, and other cardinal invariants in remainders of topological groups (Q2384405)

In this paper the author resumes his work on cardinal invariants of remainders [Topology Appl. 150, No. 1--3, 79--90 (2005; Zbl 1075.54012); ibid. 154, No. 6, 1084--1088 (2007; Zbl 1144.54001)]. Recall that a remainder of a Tikhonov space \(X\) is the complement of the homeomorphic image of the space into a compactification of \(X\). The main results in this paper, as collected by the author himself, are the following: A nowhere locally compact Tychonoff space has Lindelöf degree not greater than \(2^{\omega}\), provided it has a first countable remainder in some compactification. A topological group \(G\) is metrizable if for some non-locally compact metrizable space \(M\), the space \(G\times M\) has a first countable remainder. A noncompact topological group \(G\) such that \(G^{\omega}\) has a first countable remainder must be metrizable. If \(X\) is an uncountable Tychonoff space, no remainder of \(C_p(X)\) (the space of continuous functions on \(X\) with the topology of pointwise convergence) has countable \(\pi\)-character. If \(X\) is a space such that some remainder of \(C_p(X)\) has countable pseudocharacter, then \(X\) is countable. Under \((\text{MA}+\neg \text{CH})\), any topological group with a countable network and a first countable remainder is metrizable.