Infima and cardinal characteristics of critical ideals for countable compact spaces
Logic
2026-03-03 v1 General Topology
Abstract
For each countable ordinal , the ideals were introduced in ``Critical ideals for countable compact spaces'' (to appear in Fund. Math., see also arXiv:2503.12571) to characterize compact countable spaces homeomorphic to with the order topology. We study the structure of these ideals in the Kat\v{e}tov order, namely for limit ordinals , we show that do not serve as greatest lower bounds of the for . We therefore define the ideals with this property and show that together, the ideals and form intertwined decreasing hierarchies of - and -complete ideals. Furthermore, we examine several cardinal invariants of , computing invariants that have recently appeared in the literature in various contexts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.00674,
title = {Infima and cardinal characteristics of critical ideals for countable compact spaces},
author = {Malgorzata Kowalczuk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.00674},
year = {2026}
}