Connected and/or topological group pd-examples

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Abstract: The pinning down number pd(X) of a topological space X is the smallest cardinal kappa such that for every neighborhood assignment mathcalU on X there is a set of size kappa that meets every member of mathcalU. Clearly, pd(X)led(X) and we call X a pd-example if pd(X)<d(X). We denote by mathbfS the class of all singular cardinals that are not strong limit. It was proved in a paper of Juh'asz,Soukup and Szentmikl'ossy (arXiv:1506.00206}) that TFAE: (1) mathbfSeemptyset; (2) there is a 0-dimensional T2 pd-example; (3) there is a T2 pd-example. The aim of this paper is to produce pd-examples with further interesting topological properties like connectivity or being a topological group by presenting several constructions that transform given pd-examples into ones with these additional properties. We show that mathbfSeemptyset is also equivalent to the existence of a connected and locally connected T3 pd-example, as well as to the existence of an abelian T2 topological group pd-example. However, mathbfSeemptyset in itself is not sufficient to imply the existence of a connected T3.5 pd-example. But if there is muinmathbfS with mugemathfrakc then there is an abelian T2 topological group (hence T3.5) pd-example which is also arcwise connected and locally arcwise connected. Finally, the same assumption ,mathbfSsetminusmathfrakceemptyset, even implies that there is a locally convex topological vector space pd-example.












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