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Small cardinals and small Efimov spaces

Logic 2019-01-21 v1 General Topology

Abstract

We introduce and analyze a new cardinal characteristic of the continuum, the \emph{splitting number of the reals}, denoted s(R)\mathfrak{s}(\mathbb R). This number is connected to Efimov's problem, which asks whether every infinite compact Hausdorff space must contain either a non-trivial convergent sequence, or else a copy of βN\beta \mathbb N.

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@article{arxiv.1901.06055,
  title  = {Small cardinals and small Efimov spaces},
  author = {Will Brian and Alan Dow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06055},
  year   = {2019}
}