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On the weak tightness, Hausdorff spaces, and power homogeneous compacta

General Topology 2017-09-26 v1

Abstract

Motivated by results of Juh\'asz and van Mill in [13], we define the cardinal invariant wt(X)wt(X), the weak tightness of a topological space XX, and show that X2L(X)wt(X)ψ(X)|X|\leq 2^{L(X)wt(X)\psi(X)} for any Hausdorff space XX (Theorem 2.8). As wt(X)t(X)wt(X)\leq t(X) for any space XX, this generalizes the well-known cardinal inequality X2L(X)t(X)ψ(X)|X|\leq 2^{L(X)t(X)\psi(X)} for Hausdorff spaces (Arhangel{\cprime}ski\u{i}~[1],\v{S}}apirovski\u{i}}~[18]) in a new direction. Theorem 2.8 is generalized further using covers by GκG_\kappa-sets, where κ\kappa is a cardinal, to show that if XX is a power homogeneous compactum with a countable cover of dense, countably tight subspaces then Xc|X|\leq\mathfrak{c}, the cardinality of the continuum. This extends a result in [13] to the power homogeneous setting.

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@article{arxiv.1709.07998,
  title  = {On the weak tightness, Hausdorff spaces, and power homogeneous compacta},
  author = {Nathan Carlson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07998},
  year   = {2017}
}

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