English

Abundance of independent sequences in compact spaces and Boolean algebras

Functional Analysis 2021-04-14 v1 General Topology Logic

Abstract

It follows from a theorem of Rosenthal that a compact space is cccccc if and only if every Eberlein continuous image is metrizable. Motivated by this result, for a class of compact spaces C\mathcal{C} we define its orthogonal C\mathcal{C}^\perp as the class of all compact spaces for which every continuous image in C\mathcal{C} is metrizable. We study how this operation relates classes where centeredness is scarce with classes where it is abundant (like Eberlein and cccccc compacta), and also classes where independence is scarce (most notably weakly Radon-Nikod\'ym compacta) with classes where it is abundant. We study these problems for zero-dimensional compact spaces with the aid of Boolean algebras and show the main difficulties arising when passing to the general setting. Our main results are the constructions of several relevant examples.

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@article{arxiv.2104.06065,
  title  = {Abundance of independent sequences in compact spaces and Boolean algebras},
  author = {Antonio Avilés and Gonzalo Martínez-Cervantes and Grzegorz Plebanek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06065},
  year   = {2021}
}