Critical partition regular functions for compact spaces
Abstract
We study ideal-based refinements of sequential compactness arising from the class FinBW(I), consisting of topological spaces in which every sequence admits a convergent subsequence indexed by a set outside a given ideal I. A central theme of this work is the existence of critical ideals whose position in the Katetov order determines the relationship between a fixed class of spaces and the corresponding FinBW(I) classes. Building on earlier results characterizing several classical topological classes via such ideals, we extend this theory to a broader framework based on partition regular functions, which unifies ordinary convergence with other non-classical convergence notions such as IP- and Ramsey-type convergence. Furthermore, we investigate the existence of critical ideals associated with function classes motivated by Mazurkiewicz's theorem on uniformly convergent subsequences.
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@article{arxiv.2601.12041,
title = {Critical partition regular functions for compact spaces},
author = {Rafał Filipów and Małgorzata Kowalczuk and Hubert Książek and Adam Kwela and Grzegorz Ucal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12041},
year = {2026}
}