Weak covering properties and selection principles

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Abstract: No convenient internal characterization of spaces that are productively Lindelof is known. Perhaps the best general result known is Alster's internal characterization, under the Continuum Hypothesis, of productively Lindelof spaces which have a basis of cardinality at most aleph1. It turns out that topological spaces having Alster's property are also productively weakly Lindelof. The weakly Lindelof spaces form a much larger class of spaces than the Lindelof spaces. In many instances spaces having Alster's property satisfy a seemingly stronger version of Alster's property and consequently are productively X, where X is a covering property stronger than the Lindelof property. This paper examines the question: When is it the case that a space that is productively X is also productively Y, where X and Y are covering properties related to the Lindelof property.


The authors study weak versions of several classical covering properties (Menger, Hurewicz, Rothberger, \(\gamma\)-set). They are mainly focused on the investigation of productivity of weak covering properties. If \(\mathcal P\) is a topological property, then a space \(X\) is productively \(\mathcal P\) if the product \(X\times Y\) has \(\mathcal P\) for any space \(Y\) having \(\mathcal P\). Connections with Alster spaces (each cover of the space by compact \(G_{\delta}\)-sets has a countable subcover) are considered and characterizations of Alster spaces in terms of selection principles are given. The paper contains a number of open problems.



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