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Codings of separable compact subsets of the first Baire class

Logic 2008-05-15 v1 General Topology

Abstract

Let XX be a Polish space and KK a separable compact subset of the first Baire class on XX. For every sequence \bs\bs dense in \kk\kk, the descriptive set-theoretic properties of the set \lbf={L[\nn]:(fn)nLis pointwise convergent} \lbf=\{L\in[\nn]: (f_n)_{n\in L} \text{is pointwise convergent}\} are analyzed. It is shown that if KK is not first countable, then \lbf\lbf is \PB11\PB^1_1-complete. This can also happen even if KK is a pre-metric compactum of degree at most two, in the sense of S. Todorcevic. However, if KK is of degree exactly two, then \lbf\lbf is always Borel. A deep result of G. Debs implies that \lbf\lbf contains a Borel cofinal set and this gives a tree-representation of \kk\kk. We show that classical ordinal assignments of Baire-1 functions are actually \PB11\PB^1_1-ranks on \kk\kk. We also provide an example of a \SB11\SB^1_1 Ramsey-null subset AA of [\nn][\nn] for which there does not exist a Borel set BAB\supseteq A such that the difference BAB\setminus A is Ramsey-null.

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@article{arxiv.0805.2026,
  title  = {Codings of separable compact subsets of the first Baire class},
  author = {Pandelis Dodos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2026},
  year   = {2008}
}

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24 pages, no figures

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