The ring of real-valued functions which are continuous on a dense cozero set
Abstract
Let and denote the collections of all real-valued functions on which are continuous on a dense cozero set and on an open dense subset of respectively. contains and forms a subring of under pointwise addition and multiplication. We inquire when and when . We also ponder over the question when is isomorphic to for some topological space . We investigate some algebraic properties of the ring, for a Tychonoff space . We provide several characterisations of as a Von-Neumann regular ring. We define nowhere almost -spaces using the ring and characterise it as a Tychonoff space which has no non-isolated almost -points. We show that a Tychonoff space with countable pseudocharacter is a nowhere almost -space and highlight that this condition is not superflous using the closed ordinal space.
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@article{arxiv.2502.15358,
title = {The ring of real-valued functions which are continuous on a dense cozero set},
author = {Amrita Dey and Sagarmoy Bag and Dhananjoy Mandal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15358},
year = {2025}
}