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Power homogeneous compacta and variations on tightness

General Topology 2021-04-06 v1

Abstract

The weak tightness wt(X)wt(X), introduced in [6], has the property wt(X)t(X)wt(X)\leq t(X). It was shown in [4] that if XX is a homogeneous compactum then X2wt(X)πχ(X)|X|\leq 2^{wt(X)\pi\chi(X)}. We introduce the almost tightness at(X)at(X) with the property wt(X)at(X)t(X)wt(X)\leq at(X)\leq t(X) and show that if XX is a power homogeneous compactum then X2at(X)πχ(X)|X|\leq 2^{at(X)\pi\chi(X)}. This improves the result of \arhangelskii, van Mill, and Ridderbos in [2] that X2t(X)|X|\leq 2^{t(X)} for a power homogeneous compactum XX and gives a partial answer to a question in [4]. In addition, if XX is a homogeneous Hausdorff space we show that X2pwcL(X)wt(X)πχ(X)pct(X)|X|\leq 2^{pw_cL(X)wt(X)\pi\chi(X)pct(X)}, improving a result in [3]. It also extends the result in [4] into the Hausdorff setting. The cardinal invariant pwLc(X)pwL_c(X), introduced in [5] by Bella and Spadaro, satisfies pwLc(X)L(X)pwL_c(X)\leq L(X) and pwLc(X)c(X)pwL_c(X)\leq c(X). We also show the weight w(X)w(X) of a homogeneous space XX is bounded in various contexts using wt(X)wt(X). One such result is that if XX is homogeneous and regular then w(X)2L(X)wt(X)pct(X)w(X)\leq 2^{L(X)wt(X)pct(X)}. This generalizes a result in [4] that if XX is a homogeneous compactum then w(X)2wt(X)w(X)\leq 2^{wt(X)}.

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@article{arxiv.2104.01273,
  title  = {Power homogeneous compacta and variations on tightness},
  author = {Nathan Carlson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01273},
  year   = {2021}
}
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