Minimal size of basic families

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.03.008MaRDI QIDQ549129zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ziqin Feng, Paul Gartside

Publication date 7 July 2011

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4563

zbMATH Keywords

basic familycompact spaceseparable metrizable spaceSuperposition of functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation and superposition of functions (26B40) Cardinality properties (cardinal functions and inequalities, discrete subsets) (54A25) Real-valued functions in general topology (54C30) Function spaces in general topology (54C35) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45)

Abstract: A family $$ of continuous real-valued functions on a space $X$ is said to be {sl basic} if every $finC(X)$ can be represented $f=su{m}_{i=1}^n{g}_{i}circph{i}_i$ for some $$ and $g_{i}inC(R)$ ($i=1,\mathrm{...},n$). Define $$ is a basic family for $$. If $X$ is separable metrizable $X$ then either $X$ is locally compact and finite dimensional, and $$, or $$. If $K$ is compact and either $w(K)$ (the minimal size of a basis for $K$) has uncountable cofinality or $K$ has a discrete subset $D$ with $|D|=w(K)$ then either $K$ is finite dimensional, and $$, or $$.

Review text

Let \(C(X)\) be the set of all continuous real-valued functions on a topological space \(X\). A family \(\Phi \subset C(X)\) is said to be basic if every \(f\in C(X)\) can be represented as \(f=\sum_{i=1}^n g_i\circ \varphi _i\) for some \(\varphi _i\in\Phi \) and \(g_i\in C({\mathbb{R}})\), \(i=1,...,n\). The authors introduce a new cardinal invariant of topological spaces: basic(\(X\))=\(\min\{ | \Phi | : \Phi \; \text{is}\; \text{a}\; \text{basic}\; \text{family}\; \text{for}\; X\}\). They study possible values of basic(\(X\)) for separable metrizable spaces and compact spaces. The paper is concluded with some open questions.

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