Anti-Urysohn spaces

Abstract: All spaces are assumed to be infinite Hausdorff spaces. We call a space "anti-Urysohn"

(

AU in short

)

iff any two non-emty regular closed sets in it intersect. We prove that

for every infinite cardinal

k a p p a

there is a space of size

k a p p a

in which fewer than

c f (k a p p a)

many non-empty regular closed sets always intersect;

there is a locally countable AU space of size

k a p p a

iff

o m e g a l e k a p p a l e 2^{m a t h f r a k c}

. A space with at least two non-isolated points is called "strongly anti-Urysohn"

(

SAU in short

)

iff any two infinite closed sets in it intersect. We prove that

if

X

is any SAU space then

m a t h f r a k s l e | X | l e 2^{2^{m a t h f r a k c}}

;

if

m a t h f r a k r = m a t h f r a k c

then there is a separable, crowded, locally countable, SAU space of cardinality

m a t h f r a k c

; item if

l a m b d a > o m e g a

Cohen reals are added to any ground model then in the extension there are SAU spaces of size

k a p p a

for all

k a p p a i n [o m e g a_{1}, l a m b d a]

;

if GCH holds and

k a p p a l e l a m b d a

are uncountable regular cardinals then in some CCC generic extension we have

m a t h f r a k s = k a p p a

,

, m a t h f r a k c = l a m b d a

, and for every cardinal

m u i n [m a t h f r a k s, m a t h f r a k c]

there is an SAU space of cardinality

m u

. The questions if SAU spaces exist in ZFC or if SAU spaces of cardinality

> m a t h f r a k c

can exist remain open.

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