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A universal coregular countable second-countable space

General Topology 2020-03-31 v3

Abstract

A Hausdorff topological space XX is called superconnected\textit{superconnected} (resp. coregular\textit{coregular}) if for any nonempty open sets U1,UnXU_1,\dots U_n\subseteq X, the intersection of their closures Uˉ1Uˉn\bar U_1\cap\dots\cap\bar U_n is not empty (resp. the complement X(Uˉ1Uˉn)X\setminus (\bar U_1\cap\dots\cap\bar U_n) is a regular topological space). A canonical example of a coregular superconnected space is the projective space QP\mathbb Q\mathsf P^\infty of the topological vector space Q<ω={(xn)nωQω:{nω:xn0}<ω}\mathbb Q^{<\omega}=\{(x_n)_{n\in\omega}\in \mathbb Q^{\omega}:|\{n\in\omega:x_n\ne 0\}|<\omega\} over the field of rationals Q\mathbb Q. The space QP\mathbb Q\mathsf P^\infty is the quotient space of Q<ω{0}ω\mathbb Q^{<\omega}\setminus\{0\}^\omega by the equivalence relation xyx\sim y iff Qx=Qy\mathbb Q{\cdot}x=\mathbb Q{\cdot}y. We prove that every countable second-countable coregular space is homeomorphic to a subspace of QP\mathbb Q\mathsf P^\infty, and a topological space XX is homeomorphic to QP\mathbb Q\mathsf P^\infty if and only if XX is countable, second-countable, and admits a decreasing sequence of closed sets (Xn)nω(X_n)_{n\in\omega} such that (i) X0=XX_0=X, nωXn=\bigcap_{n\in\omega}X_n=\emptyset, (ii) for every nωn\in\omega and a nonempty open set UXnU\subseteq X_n the closure Uˉ\bar U contains some set XmX_m, and (iii) for every nωn\in\omega the complement XXnX\setminus X_n is a regular topological space. Using this topological characterization of QP\mathbb Q\mathsf P^\infty we find topological copies of the space QP\mathbb Q\mathsf P^\infty among quotient spaces, orbit spaces of group actions, and projective spaces of topological vector spaces over countable topological fields.

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@article{arxiv.2003.06293,
  title  = {A universal coregular countable second-countable space},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Yaryna Stelmakh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.06293},
  year   = {2020}
}

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