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One-point extensions of locally compact paracompact spaces

General Topology 2012-06-01 v1

Abstract

A space YY is called an {\em extension} of a space XX if YY contains XX as a dense subspace. Two extensions of XX are said to be {\em equivalent} if there is a homeomorphism between them which fixes XX point-wise. For two (equivalence classes of) extensions YY and YY' of XX let YYY\leq Y' if there is a continuous function of YY' into YY which fixes XX point-wise. An extension YY of XX is called a {\em one-point extension} if Y\XY\backslash X is a singleton. An extension YY of XX is called {\em first-countable} if YY is first-countable at points of Y\XY\backslash X. Let P{\mathcal P} be a topological property. An extension YY of XX is called a {\em P{\mathcal P}-extension} if it has P{\mathcal P}. In this article, for a given locally compact paracompact space XX, we consider the two classes of one-point \v{C}ech-complete P{\mathcal P}-extensions of XX and one-point first-countable locally-P{\mathcal P} extensions of XX, and we study their order-structures, by relating them to the topology of a certain subspace of the outgrowth βX\X\beta X\backslash X. Here P{\mathcal P} is subject to some requirements and include σ\sigma-compactness and the Lindel\"{o}f property as special cases.

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@article{arxiv.1205.6966,
  title  = {One-point extensions of locally compact paracompact spaces},
  author = {M. R. Koushesh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6966},
  year   = {2012}
}

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22 pages