Locally compact spaces of countable core and Alexandroff compactification

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2005.05.011MaRDI QIDQ861944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 2 February 2007

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2005.05.011

\(\sigma\)-compact Alexandroff one-point compactification compact from inside countable core countably compact Fréchet--Urysohn locally compact pseudocompact weakly first countable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cardinality properties (cardinal functions and inequalities, discrete subsets) (54A25) Consistency and independence results in general topology (54A35) Special maps on topological spaces (open, closed, perfect, etc.) (54C10) Local compactness, (sigma)-compactness (54D45)

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The author introduces a new cardinal invariant, the core of a locally compact \(T_2\)-space (denoted \(cor(X)\)), and states that ``locally compact spaces of countable core generalize locally compact \(\sigma\)-compact spaces in a way that is slightly exotic, but still quite natural. A subset \(S\) of a locally compact space \(X\) is called saturated iff \(S\) is closed in \(X\) and \(S \cap P\not=\emptyset\), for every closed, non-compact subset \(P\) of \(X\). Then \(cor(X)\) is defined to be the smallest cardinal number \(\tau\) such that there exists a family \(\gamma\) of saturated subsets of \(X\) satisfying \( | \gamma | \leq\tau\) and \(\cap\gamma=\emptyset\). Among many results, the author shows that under a broad range of conditions locally compact spaces of countable core must be \(\sigma\)-compact. In particular, a locally compact space of countable core that is either normal or realcompact is \(\sigma\)-compact. The class of spaces of countable core is preserved in both directions by perfect mappings. The Alexandroff one-point compactification \(\alpha(X)=X\cup\{\infty\}\) of a non-compact locally compact space \(X\) is weakly first countable at \(\infty\) if and only if \(cor(X) = \omega\), and \(\alpha(X)\) is first countable (or Fréchet--Urysohn) at \(\infty\) if and only if \(X\) is \(\sigma\)-compact. The author shows that two spaces in the literature are non-\(\sigma\)-compact locally compact spaces of countable core. Eight problems are stated.

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