English

Cantor-Bendixson type ranks on Polish spaces

Logic 2018-06-11 v1 General Topology

Abstract

For any Polish space XX it is well-known that the Cantor-Bendixson rank provides a co-analytic rank on F0(X)F_{\aleph_0}(X) if and only if XX is a σ\sigma-compact. In the case of ωω\omega^\omega one may recover a co-analytic rank on F0(ωω)F_{\aleph_0}(\omega^\omega) by considering the Cantor-Bendixson rank of the induced trees instead. In this paper we will generalize this idea to arbitrary Polish spaces and thereby construct a family of co-analytic ranks on F0(X)F_{\aleph_0}(X) for any Polish space XX. We study the behaviour of this family and compare the ranks to the original Cantor-Bendixson rank. The main results are characterizations of the compact and σ\sigma-compact Polish spaces in terms of this behaviour.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1806.03206,
  title  = {Cantor-Bendixson type ranks on Polish spaces},
  author = {Vibeke Quorning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.03206},
  year   = {2018}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-23T02:23:47.311Z