Čech completeness and fine topologies in potential theory and real analysis (Q913299)

The authors prove two new results from General Topology and give applications to Potential Theory, classical as well as in the context of Harmonic spaces. As sample, we quote one result and one of its applications. Let (X,t) be a completely regular Hausdorff topological space and \({\mathcal N}\) be a \(\sigma\)-ideal of subsets of X such that (X,t) is \({\mathcal N}\)-quasi-Lindelöf (that is, every family of open sets contains a countable subfamily whose union differs from the union of the whole family by a set in \({\mathcal N})\). Suppose that every compact in X is in \({\mathcal N}\) and every set in \({\mathcal N}\) is contained in a Borel set in \({\mathcal N}\). If there exists a locally finite Borel measure \(\mu\) on X such that \(\mu (X)>0\) and every Borel set in \({\mathcal N}\) is of \(\mu\)- measure zero, then (X,t) is not a Borel subset of its Stone-Čech compactification. Application. When \(n>1\), the Euclidean space \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\) with the fine topology \(\tau\) is not a Borel subset of its Stone-Čech compactification; \(({\mathbb{R}}^ n,\tau)\) is actually Čech complete if and only if \(n=1\).