Resolvability and complete accumulation points

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Abstract: We prove that: I. For every regular Lindel"of space X if |X|=Delta(X) and mathrmcf|X|eomega, then X is maximally resolvable; II. For every regular countably compact space X if |X|=Delta(X) and mathrmcf|X|=omega, then X is maximally resolvable. Here Delta(X), the dispersion character of X, is the minimum cardinality of a nonempty open subset of X. Statements I and II are corollaries of the main result: for every regular space X if |X|=Delta(X) and every set AsubseteqX of cardinality mathrmcf|X| has a complete accumulation point, then X is maximally resolvable. Moreover, regularity here can be weakened to pi-regularity, and the Lindel"of property can be weakened to the linear Lindel"of property.


The author proves a succinct result on resolvability of topological spaces: if \(X\) is regular and \(\kappa\) is a cardinal such that \(X\) is \(\operatorname{cf}\kappa\)-compact and such that \(\vert X\vert =\Delta(X)=\kappa\) then \(X\) is maximally resolvable.\par The relevant notions are defined as follows: \(\lambda\)-compactness means that every subset of cardinality \(\lambda\) has a complete accumulation point and \(\Delta(X)\) is the dispersion character of \(X\): the minimum cardinality of an open subset of \(X\). Maximal resolvability means that \(X\) has a pairwise disjoint family of \(\vert X\vert \) many dense subsets.\par The paper's introduction gives a nice overview of the history of the problem of maximal resolvability.











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