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Unboring ideals

General Topology 2025-01-06 v5 Logic

Abstract

Our main object of interest is the following notion: we say that a topological space space XX is in FinBW(I\mathcal{I}), where I\mathcal{I} is an ideal on ω\omega, if for each sequence (xn)nω(x_n)_{n\in\omega} in XX one can find an AIA\notin\mathcal{I} such that (xn)nA(x_n)_{n\in A} converges in XX. We define an ideal BI\mathcal{BI} which is critical for FinBW(I\mathcal{I}) in the following sense: Under CH, for every ideal I\mathcal{I}, BI̸KI\mathcal{BI}\not\leq_K\mathcal{I} (K\leq_K denotes the Kat\v{e}tov preorder of ideals) iff there is an uncountable separable space in FinBW(I\mathcal{I}). We show that BI̸KI\mathcal{BI}\not\leq_K\mathcal{I} and ω1\omega_1 with the order topology is in FinBW(I\mathcal{I}), for all Π40\bf{\Pi^0_4} ideals I\mathcal{I}. We examine when FinBW(I\mathcal{I})\setminusFinBW(J\mathcal{J}) is nonempty: we prove under MA(σ\sigma-centered) that for Π40\bf{\Pi^0_4} ideals I\mathcal{I} and J\mathcal{J} this is equivalent to J̸KI\mathcal{J}\not\leq_K\mathcal{I}. Moreover, answering in negative a question of M. Hru\v{s}\'ak and D. Meza-Alc\'antara, we show that the ideal Fin×Fin\text{Fin}\times\text{Fin} is not critical among Borel ideals for extendability to a Π30\bf{\Pi^0_3} ideal. Finally, we apply our results in studies of Hindman spaces and in the context of analytic P-ideals.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.17166,
  title  = {Unboring ideals},
  author = {Adam Kwela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.17166},
  year   = {2025}
}
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