Compactifications of ^*\x\ and S_\x\

Publication date 18 February 2015

Abstract: The space

S_{k} a p p a

is the Stone space of the

k a p p a

-saturated Boolean algebra of cardinality

k a p p a

. It exists provided that

k a p p a = k a p p a^{< k a p p a}

, and is characterised topologically as the unique

k a p p a

-Parovichenko space of weight

k a p p a

. Under the Continuum Hypothesis,

S_{o m e g a_{1}}

coincides with

o m e g a^{*}

. This paper investigates questions related to the Stone-Cech compactification of spaces

S_{k} a p p a s e t m i n u s x

, extending corresponding results obtained by Fine & Gillman and Comfort & Negrepontis for the space

o m e g a^{*}

. We show that for every point

x

of

S_{k} a p p a

, the Stone-Cech remainder of

S_{k} a p p a s e t m i n u s x

is a

k a p p a^{+}

-Parovichenko space of cardinality

2^{2^{k} a p p a}

which admits a family of

2^{k} a p p a

disjoint clopen sets. As a corollary we get that it is consistent with CH that the Stone-Cech remainders of

o m e g a^{*} s e t m i n u s x

are all homeomorphic.

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