Monotone retractability and retractional skeletons (Q465375)

Spaces with a rich family of retractions are often studied both in topology and functional analysis, see e.g. Chapter 19 in [\textit{J. Kąkol} et al., Descriptive topology in selected topics of functional analysis. Developments in Mathematics 24. Berlin: Springer (2011; Zbl 1231.46002)]. The authors of the paper under review prove that a countably compact space is monotonically retractable if and only if it has a full retractional skeleton. In the proof they use a method of elementary models, see \textit{M. Cúth} [Fundam. Math. 219, No. 3, 191--222 (2012; Zbl 1270.46015)]. Since a compact space has a full retractional skeleton iff it is Corson, see \textit{M. Cúth} [Commentat. Math. Univ. Carol. 55, No. 1, 53--72 (2014; Zbl 1313.46026)], so a compact space is monotonically retractable if and only if it is Corson. This gives an answer to a question of R. Rojas-Hernández and V. V. Tkachuk. In the second part of the paper the authors characterize the retractional skeleton using a topology on the space of continuous functions, answering thus Problem 1 from \textit{M. Cúth} [loc. cit.], and the related Problem 1 of \textit{W. Kubiś} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 350, No. 2, 758--776 (2009; Zbl 1166.46008)].