Uniform Eberlein compactifications of metrizable spaces

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.06.060MaRDI QIDQ409664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 13 April 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0920

hereditarily paracompact space metrizable space scattered compactification scattered space uniform Eberlein compact space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncompact covering properties (paracompact, Lindelöf, etc.) (54D20) Compactness (54D30) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35) Scattered spaces (54G12)

Abstract: We prove that each metrizable space (of cardinality less or equal to continuum) has a (first countable) uniform Eberlein compactification and each scattered metrizable space has a scattered hereditarily paracompact compactification. Each compact scattered hereditarily paracompact space is uniform Eberlein and belongs to the smallest class of compact spaces, that contain the empty set, the singleton, and is closed under producing the Aleksandrov compactification of the topological sum of a family of compacta from that class.

Review text

In this paper, the authors investigate uniform Eberlein compactifications of metrizable spaces.NEWLINENEWLINEThey start by giving a short proof that every metrizable space has a uniform Eberlein compactification, which is a strengthening of a result of [\textit{A. V. Arkhangel'skii}, Topological function spaces. Mathematics and its Applications, Soviet Series, 78. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1992; Zbl 0758.46026)]. As is noted in the paper, this first result was also obtained independently by \textit{B. A. Pasynkov} [Topology Appl. 159, No. 7, 1750--1760 (2012; Zbl 1252.54020)]; although Pasynkov's result yields such a compactification with stronger properties, the proof presented here is more straightforward. The authors also show that, if (and only if) the metrizable space has size not exceeding the continuum, one can obtain a first countable such compactification.NEWLINENEWLINEThe last two thirds of the paper are dedicated to the study of scattered uniform Eberlein compactifications of scattered metrizable spaces. The authors characterize the class of compact scattered hereditarily paracompact Hausdorff spaces as the smallest class \(\mathcal A\) that contains the finite discrete spaces and is closed under taking the Alexandroff compactifications of topological sums of elements of \(\mathcal A\). It is then proved that every space in the class \(\mathcal A\) is a uniform Eberlein compact, and that every scattered metrizable space has a compactification that belongs to \(\mathcal A\).

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