Dissipated compacta (Q2469565)

Based on a concept of a tight map, the author introduces and studies dissipated compacta. The property of tightness is absolute for transitive models of set theory. The class of dissipated compacta includes the scattered compacta, the metric compacta and the compact LOTSes (totally ordered spaces with the order topology). The author also describes the more general notion of \(\kappa\)-dissipated, which gets weaker as \(\kappa\) gets bigger. ``Dissipated'' is the same as ``2-dissipated'', while ``1-dissipated'' is the same as ``scattered''. Every regular Borel measure on a \(2^{\aleph_0}\)-dissipated compactum is separable. The standard Fedorčuk \(S\)-space (constructed under \(\diamond\)) is dissipated. A dissipated compact \(L\)-space exists iff there is a Suslin line. A product of two compact LOTSes is usually not dissipated. If \(X\) is the double arrow space of Alexandroff and Urysohn, then \(X\) is \(2\)-dissipated, but not \(1\)-dissipated, while \(X^{n+1}\) is \((2^n+1)\)-dissipated but not \(2^n\)-dissipated. Considerations of this sort can be used to distinguish topologically a product of \(n\) LOTSes from a product of \(m\) LOTSes.