Between the Lindelöf property and countable tightness (Q4510053)

A topology space \(X\) has countable tightness in case, for every \(x\in X\), if \(x\) is in the closure of a subset \(A\subset X\), then \(x\) is in the closure of a countable subsets of \(A\). Let \(K\) be a compact Hausdorff space, \(C(K)\) denote the Banach space of continuous real valued functions on \(K\) with the weak topology, and \(P(K)\) denote the set of probability of Radon measures in the conjugate space \(C(K)^*\) with the weak\(^*\) topology. The authors show that if \(K\) has countable tightness, then \(C(K)\) is real-compact. Their goal is to find conditions on \(K\) which ensure the property (A): \(P(K)\) has countable tightness. They show that if \(K\) is zero-dimensional and \(C(K)\) is Lindelöf, then (A) follows. Another result says that, assuming Martin's axiom and the negation of the continuum hypothesis, (A) is equivalent to the condition that \(C(K)\) satisfy a convex version of the Lindelöf condition, namely, for every family \(F\) of closed convex subsets of \(C(K)\), if all countable subfamilies of \(F\) have non-empty intersections, then so does \(F\).