Normality in products with a countable factor

Set theory (03E99) Cardinality properties (cardinal functions and inequalities, discrete subsets) (54A25) Product spaces in general topology (54B10) Higher separation axioms (completely regular, normal, perfectly or collectionwise normal, etc.) (54D15)

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This paper begins by quickly establishing that if \(X \times Y\) is normal for some space \(Y\) with a countable non-discrete subspace, then \(X\) is not Dowker (= normal but not countably paracompact). The author then turns his attention to investigating which Dowker spaces \(X\) have \(X^2\) normal. Rudin's original Dowker space (which has size \((\aleph_{\omega})^{\omega}\)) does have a normal square. Are there any small Dowker spaces with normal square? The answer in this paper is: yes, under \(\diamondsuit^*_S\) there is such a space, with size \(\omega_2\). The author then investigates spaces \(X\) in which \(X \times Y\) is not normal for some countable \(Y\). (Purisch and Rudin gave conditions in which a normal space \(X\) cannot have this property, for example, a linearly ordered space has normal product with any countable space.) He proves a number of theorems, including: 1. under CH there is a countably compact normal space \(X\) and a countable regular space \(Y\) with \(X \times Y\) not normal; 2. Under \(\diamondsuit\) there is an Ostaszewski space \(X\) and a countable regular space \(Y\) with \(X \times Y\) not normal; 3. the non-metrizable normal Moore space constructed from a \(Q\)-set in \(2^{\omega}\) has non-normal product with a countable space.

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