Analytic topologies over countable sets (Q5929617)

The subject of the paper is the systematic study of analytic topologies over the set of natural numbers \(\mathbb N\) (every topology over \(\mathbb N\) is identified with a subset of the Cantor space \(2^{\mathbb N}\)). The authors analyze closed and \(G_\delta\) topologies, topologies that have the Baire property and \(T_1\) topologies. They present results concerning the complexity of bases and subbases of such topologies, analyze that complexity of Hausdorff topologies, and show that every analytic regular topology is homeomorphic to a countable subspace of the function space \(C_p(\mathbb N^{\mathbb N})\). The last parts of the paper are devoted to the study of the ideal of nowhere dense sets \(\text{NWD}(\tau)\) where \(\tau\) is a given topology, and one of the questions is: Given a Borel (analytic) ideal \(\mathcal I\) over \(\mathbb N\), what are the possible topologies \(\tau\) such that \(\mathcal I=\text{NWD}(\tau)\)? The authors show that \(\text{NWD}(\tau)\) is not a \(p\)-ideal for \(\tau\) analytic and prove many of the structural properties of ideals on \(\mathbb N\) by using Tukey reducibility and Rudin-Blass reducibility.