Nonseparable \(C(K)\)-spaces can be twisted when \(K\) is a finite height compact (Q896825)

A question of long standing interest is the existence of nontrivial twisted sums of \(c_0\) with a continuous function space \(C(K)\). Sobczyk's theorem ensures that no such example exists when \(K\) is metrizable and it is reasonable to ask whether such an example always exists whenever \(K\) is not metrizable; this is known to be true in several important cases. Assuming the continuum hypothesis, this paper contributes such examples in one more case, namely when the sequence of derived sets of \(K\) terminates at the empty set after a finite number of steps. Very recently, \textit{W. Marciszewski} and \textit{G. Plebanek} [``Extension operators and twisted sums of \(c_0\) and \(C(K)\) spaces'', Preprint (2017), \url{arXiv:1703.02139}] have shown, assuming Martin's axiom and the negation of the continuum hypothesis, that no such example exists when \(K\) is separable, has weight \(\omega_1\), and its third derived set is empty. Thus the problem is not decidable in ZFC.