The non-Urysohn number of a topological space
Abstract
We call a nonempty subset of a topological space finitely non-Urysohn if for every nonempty finite subset of and every family of open neighborhoods of , and we define the non-Urysohn number of as follows: is a finitely non-Urysohn subset of . Then for any topological space and any subset of we prove the following inequalities: (1) , (2) , (3) , and (4) . In 1979, A. V. Arhangelskii asked if the inequality was true for every Hausdorff space . It follows from the third inequality that the answer of this question is in the affirmative for all spaces with not greater than the cardinality of the continuum. We also give a simple example of a Hausdorff space such that and , where is the Urysohn number of , recently introduced by Bonanzinga, Cammaroto and Matveev. This example shows that in (1) and (2) above, cannot be replaced by and answers some questions posed by Bella and Cammaroto (1988), Bonanzinga, Cammaroto and Matveev (2011), and Bonanzinga and Pansera (2012).
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@article{arxiv.1311.6544,
title = {The non-Urysohn number of a topological space},
author = {Ivan S. Gotchev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.6544},
year = {2013}
}
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8 pages