Nagata's conjecture and countably compactifications in generic extensions
Abstract
Nagata conjectured that every -space is homeomorphic to a closed subspace of the product of a countably compact space and a metric space. This conjecture was refuted by Burke and van Douwen, and A. Kato, independently. However, we can show that there is a c.c.c. poset of size such that in Nagata's conjecture holds for each first countable regular space from the ground model (i.e. if a first countable regular space is an -space in then it is homeomorphic to a closed subspace of the product of a countably compact space and a metric space in ). In fact, we show that every first countable regular space from the ground model has a first countable countably compact extension in , and then apply some results of Morita. As a corollary, we obtain that every first countable regular space from the ground model has a maximal first countable extension in model .
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@article{arxiv.math/0610432,
title = {Nagata's conjecture and countably compactifications in generic extensions},
author = {Lajos Soukup},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0610432},
year = {2007}
}