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Cardinal invariants of a meager ideal

General Topology 2023-11-20 v1

Abstract

Let MX\mathcal M_X denote the ideal of meager subsets of a topological space XX. We prove that if XX is a completely metrizable space without isolated points, then the smallest cardinality of a non-meager subset of XX, denoted non(MX)\mathrm{non}(\mathcal M_X), is exactly non(MX)=cf[κ]ωnon(MR)\mathrm{non}(\mathcal M_X) = \mathrm{cf}[\kappa]^\omega \cdot \mathrm{non}(\mathcal M_{\mathbb R}), where κ\kappa is the minimum weight of a nonempty open subset of XX. We also characterize the additivity and covering numbers for MX\mathcal M_X in terms of simple topological properties of XX. Some bounds are proved and some questions raised concerning the cofinality of MX\mathcal M_X and the cofinality of the related ideal of nowhere dense subsets of XX. We also show that if XX is a compact Hausdorff space with π\pi-weight κ\kappa, then non(MX)cf[κ]ωnon(MR)\mathrm{non}(\mathcal M_X) \leq \mathrm{cf}[\kappa]^\omega \cdot \mathrm{non}(\mathcal M_{\mathbb R}). 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}
}