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Regular spaces of small extent are omega-resolvable

General Topology 2013-11-08 v1

Abstract

We improve some results of Pavlov and of Filatova, respectively, concerning a problem of Malychin by showing that every regular space X that satisfies Delta(X)>ext(X) is omega-resolvable. Here Delta(X), the dispersion character of X, is the smallest size of a non-empty open set in X and ext(X), the extent of X, is the supremum of the sizes of all closed-and-discrete subsets of X. In particular, regular Lindel\"of spaces of uncountable dispersion character are omega-resolvable. We also prove that any regular Lindel\"of space X with |X|=\Delta(X)=omega_1 is even omega_1-resolvable. The question if regular Lindel\"of spaces of uncountable dispersion character are maximally resolvable remains wide open.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1719,
  title  = {Regular spaces of small extent are omega-resolvable},
  author = {Istvan Juhasz and Lajos Soukup and Zoltan Szentmiklossy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1719},
  year   = {2013}
}