The Hurewicz covering property and slaloms in the Baire space

DOI10.4064/FM181-3-5zbMATH Open1056.54028arXivmath/0301085OpenAlexW3104146344MaRDI QIDQ4829352FDOQ4829352

Authors: Boaz Tsaban 

Publication date: 29 November 2004

Published in: Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: According to a result of Kocinac and Scheepers, the Hurewicz covering property is equivalent to a somewhat simpler selection property: For each sequence of large open covers of the space one can choose finitely many elements from each cover to obtain a groupable cover of the space. We simplify the characterization further by omitting the need to consider sequences of covers: A set of reals $X$ satisfies the Hurewicz property if, and only if, each large open cover of $X$ contains a groupable subcover. This solves in the affirmative a problem of Scheepers. The proof uses a rigorously justified abuse of notation and a "structure" counterpart of a combinatorial characterization, in terms of slaloms, of the minimal cardinality b of an unbounded family of functions in the Baire space. In particular, we obtain a new characterization of $$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301085

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zbMATH Keywords

Hurewicz propertyMenger propertygroupabilityslalomlarge coversunbounding number~\({\mathfrak b}\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial set theory (03E05) Noncompact covering properties (paracompact, Lindelöf, etc.) (54D20) Classification of real functions; Baire classification of sets and functions (26A21) Foundations: limits and generalizations, elementary topology of the line (26A03) Applications of set theory (03E75)

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