Cardinal invariants of a meager ideal
Abstract
Let denote the ideal of meager subsets of a topological space . We prove that if is a completely metrizable space without isolated points, then the smallest cardinality of a non-meager subset of , denoted , is exactly , where is the minimum weight of a nonempty open subset of . We also characterize the additivity and covering numbers for in terms of simple topological properties of . Some bounds are proved and some questions raised concerning the cofinality of and the cofinality of the related ideal of nowhere dense subsets of . We also show that if is a compact Hausdorff space with -weight , then . This bound for compact Hausdorff spaces is not sharp, in the sense that it is consistent for such a space to have non-meager subsets of even smaller cardinality.
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@article{arxiv.2311.10209,
title = {Cardinal invariants of a meager ideal},
author = {Will Brian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.10209},
year = {2023}
}