Connectedness modulo an ideal

Abstract: For a topological space

X

and an ideal

m a t h s c r H

of subsets of

X

we introduce the notion of connectedness modulo

m a t h s c r H

. This notion of connectedness naturally generalizes the notion of connectedness in its usual sense. In the case when

X

is completely regular, we introduce a subspace

g a m m a_{m a t h s c r H} X

of the Stone--v{C}ech compactification

of

X

, such that connectedness modulo

m a t h s c r H

is equivalent to connectedness of

. In particular, we prove that when

m a t h s c r H

is the ideal generated by the collection of all open subspaces of

X

with pseudocompact closure, then

X

is connected modulo

m a t h s c r H

if and only if

is connected, and when

X

is normal and

m a t h s c r H

is the ideal generated by the collection of all closed realcompact subspaces of

X

, then

X

is connected modulo

m a t h s c r H

if and only if

is connected. Here

u p s i l o n X

is the Hewitt realcompactification of

X

.

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