Reflecting topological properties in closed separable subspaces

DOI10.1007/S40879-024-00790-WMaRDI QIDQ7030025zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alan Dow, Vladimir Tkachuk

Publication date 10 February 2025

Published in European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S40879-024-00790-W

zbMATH Keywords

Baire spacemetrizable spacepseudocompletereflectionzero-dimensionalČech-complete

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consistency and independence results in general topology (54A35) Subspaces in general topology (54B05) Function spaces in general topology (54C35) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11)

Review text

Reflection results abound in General Topology; the first author showed in [\textit{A. Dow}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 104, No. 3, 999--1001 (1988; Zbl 0692.54018)] that a non-metrizable compact space must have a non-metrizable subspace of cardinality \(\aleph_1\). A space without isolated points is compact iff every closed nowhere dense subset is compact, see [\textit{J. Vermeer} and \textit{E. Wattel}, in: Topological structures II, Proc. Symp. Amsterdam 1978, Part 2, Math. Cent. Tracts 116, 285--290 (1979; Zbl 0445.54013)].\N\NThe present paper investigates which topological properties can be detected by looking at closed separable subsets. Being a Baire space can be detected in this way: if every closed separable subspace of a metrizable space is a Baire space then so is the space itself; the same holds for spaces of the form \(C_p(X)\). It is consistent that zero-dimensionality cannot be detected in this way: the authors use Jensen's \(\lozenge\) to construct a connected metrizable space in which every closed separable subspace is countable. The paper ends with a list of questions regarding detection by closed separable subspaces.

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