On extensions of countable filterbases to ultrafilters and ultrafilter compactness

We show in the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory ZF without the axiom of choice:

1. Given an infinite set X, the Stone space S(X) is ultrafilter compact.

2. For every infinite set X, every countable filterbase of X extends to an ultra-filter i? for every infinite set X, S(X) is countably compact.

3. ω has a free ultrafilter i? every countable, ultrafilter compact space is countably compact.

   We also show the following:

4. There are a permutation model 𝒩 and a set X ∈ 𝒩 such that X has no free ultrafilters and S(X) is not compact but S(X) is countably compact and every countable filterbase of X extends to an ultrafilter.

5. It is relatively consistent with ZF that every countable filterbase of ω extends to an ultrafilter but there exists a countable filterbase of ? which does not extend to an ultrafilter. Hence, it is relatively consistent with ZF that ? has free ultrafilters but there exists a countable filterbase of ? which does not extend to an ultrafilter.

     

Amorphe Potenzen kompakter Räume

A set is amorphous, if it is not a union of two disjoint infinite subsets. The following variants of the Tychonoff product theorem are investigated in the hierarchy of weak choice principles. TA1: An amorphous power of a compactT ₂ space is compact. TA2: An amorphous power of a compactT ₂ space which as a set is wellorderable is compact. In ZF⁰TA1 is equivalent to the assertion, that amorphous sets are finite. RT is Ramsey's theorem, that every finite colouring of the set ofn-element subsets of an infinite set has an infinite homogeneous subset and PW is Rubin's axiom, that the power set of an ordinal is wellorderable. In ZF⁰RT+PW implies TA2. Since RT+PW is compatible with the existence of infinite amorphous sets, TA2 does not imply TA1 in ZF⁰. But TA2 cannot be proved in ZF⁰ alone. As an application, we prove a theorem of Stone, using a weak wellordering axiomD ₃ (a set is wellorderable, if each of its infinite subsets is structured) together with RT.

Diese Arbeit ist Teil der Habilitationsschrift des Verfassers im Fachgebiet Mathematische Analysis an der Technischen Universität Wien.     

ADDITIVE PROPERTIES OF SETS OF REAL NUMBERS AND AN INFINITE GAME

Abstract

1. If X has strong measure zero aid if Y is contained in an F _σ, set of measure zero, then X + Y has measure zero (Proposition 9).

2. If X is a measure zero set with property s ₀ and Y is a Sierpinski set, then X + Y has property s ₀ (Theorem 12).

3. If X is a meager set with property s ₀ and Y is a Lusin set, then X + Y has property s ₀ (Theorem 17).

An infinite game is introduced, motivated by additive properties of certain classes of sets of real numbers.     

Canonical subbase-compactness of topological products

For topological products the concept of canonical subbase-compactness is introduced, and the question analyzed under what conditions such products are canonically subbase-compact in ZF-set theory.Results: (1) Products of finite spaces are canonically subbase-compact iff AC(fin), the axiom of choice for finite sets, holds.(2) Products of n-element spaces are canonically subbase-compact iff AC(<n), the axiom of choice for sets with less than n elements, holds.(3) Products of compact spaces are canonically subbase-compact iff AC, the axiom of choice, holds.(4) All powers XI of a compact space X are canonically subbase compact iff X is a Loeb-space.These results imply that in ZF the implications

     

The spectrum of partitions of a Boolean algebra

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Separation of two convex sets in convexity structures

A convexity structure satisfies the separation propertyS ₄ if any two disjoint convex sets extend to complementary half-spaces. This property is investigated for alignment spaces,n-ary convexities, and graphs. In particular, it is proven that

1. ann-ary convexity isS ₄ iff every pair of disjoint polytopes with at mostn vertices can be separated by complementary half spaces, and
2. an interval convexity isS ₄ iff it satisfies the analogue of the Pasch axiom of plane geometry.

A characterization of bipartite and weakly modular spaces withS ₄ convexity is given in terms of forbidden subgraphs.     

Classifying almost-disjoint families with applications toβN − N

A family of infinite subsets of the setN of natural numbers will be called almost disjoint iff any two of its members have finite intersection. We shall define such a family ℱ to ben-separable iff for every decompositionD = {D ₁, …D _n } ofN inton or fewer disjoint subsets there exist setsF ∈ ℱ andD ∃D such thatF ⊆D, and we shall use this and related notions to classify almost-disjoint families, using, on occasion, special axioms of set theory.     

Compact and Loeb Hausdorff spaces in \documentclass{article}\usepackage{amssymb}\begin{document}\pagestyle{empty}$\mathsf {ZF}$\end{document} and the axiom of choice for families of finite sets

Given a set X, $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(X)}$ denotes the statement: “$[X]^{<\omega }\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set” and $\mathcal {C}_\mathrm{R}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )$ denotes the family of all closed subsets of the topological space $\mathbf {2}^{X}$ whose definition depends on a finite subset of X. We study the interrelations between the statements $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(X)},$ $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}([X]^{<\omega })},$ $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin} (F_{n}(X,2))},$ $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(\mathcal {\wp }(X))}$ and “$\mathcal {C}_\mathrm{R}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$has a choice set”. We show:

• (i) $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(X)}$ iff $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}([X]^{<\omega } )}$ iff $\mathcal {C}_\mathrm{R}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set iff $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(F_{n}(X,2))}$.
• (ii) $\mathsf {AC}_{\mathrm{fin}}$ ($\mathsf {AC}$ restricted to families of finite sets) iff for every set X, $\mathcal {C}_\mathrm{R}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set.
• (iii) $\mathsf {AC}_{\mathrm{fin}}$ does not imply “$\mathcal {K}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set($\mathcal {K}(\mathbf {X})$ is the family of all closed subsets of the space $\mathbf {X}$)
• (iv) $\mathcal {K}(\mathbf {2}^{X})\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ implies $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(\mathcal {\wp }(X))}$ but $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(X)}$ does not imply $\mathsf {AC}^{\mathrm{fin}(\mathcal {\wp }(X))}$.

We also show that “For every setX, “$\mathcal {K}\big (\mathbf {2}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$has a choice set” iff “for every setX, $\mathcal {K}\big (\mathbf {[0,1]}^{X}\big )\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$has a choice set” iff “for every product$\mathbf {X}$of finite discrete spaces,$\mathcal {K}(\mathbf {X})\backslash \lbrace \varnothing \rbrace$ has a choice set”.     

The Menger property for infinite ordered sets

It is shown that, if an ordered set P contains at most k pairwise disjoint maximal chains, where k is finite, then every finite family of maximal chains in P has a cutset of size at most k. As a corollary of this, we obtain the following Menger-type result that, if in addition, P contains k pairwise disjoint complete maximal chains, then the whole family, M (P), of maximal chains in P has a cutset of size k. We also give a direct proof of this result. We give an example of an ordered set P in which every maximal chain is complete, P does not contain infinitely many pairwise disjoint maximal chains (but arbitrarily large finite families of pairwise disjoint maximal chains), and yet M (P) does not have a cutset of size <x, where x is any given (infinite) cardinal. This shows that the finiteness of k in the above corollary is essential and disproves a conjecture of Zaguia.     

Characterization of Abelian groups with a minimal generating set

Abstract

We characterize Abelian groups with a minimal generating set: Let τ A denote the maximal torsion subgroup of A. An infinitely generated Abelian group A of cardinality κ has a minimal generating set iff at least one of the following conditions is satisfied:

1. dim(A/pA) = dim(A/qA) = κ for at least two different primes p, q.

2. dim(t A/pt A) = κ for some prime number p.

3. Σ{dim(A/(pA + B)) ∣ dim(A/(pA + B)) < κ} = κ for every finitely generated subgroup B of A.

Moreover, if the group A is uncountable, property (3) can be simplified to (3') Σ{dim(A/pA) ∣ dim(A/pA) < κ} = κ, and if the cardinality of the group A has uncountable cofinality, then A has a minimal generating set iff any of properties (1) and (2) is satisfied.     

Die Stoppverteilungen eines Markoff-Prozesses mit lokalendlichem Potential

Consider a Markovian standard semigroup P_t, t≥o, with potential kernel U=∫P_tdt on a locally compact space E. Let μ be a finite measure on E with locally finite potential μ^U and X_t, t≥O, the process having (P_t) as transition semigroup and μ as initial law. Then for a measure ν on E the following two statements are equivalent:

1. μ^U≥νU;
2. there exists a “randomized” stopping time T such that X_T is distributed according to ν.

     

Countably compact hyperspaces and Frolík sums

Let H⁰(X) (H(X)) denote the set of all (nonempty) closed subsets of X endowed with the Vietoris topology. A basic problem concerning H(X) is to characterize those X for which H(X) is countably compact. We conjecture that u-compactness of X for some u∈ω^∗ (or equivalently: all powers of X are countably compact) may be such a characterization. We give some results that point into this direction.We define the property R(κ): for every family of closed subsets of X separated by pairwise disjoint open sets and any family of natural numbers, the product is countably compact, and prove that if H(X) is countably compact for a T₂-space X then X satisfies R(κ) for all κ. A space has R(1) iff all its finite powers are countably compact, so this generalizes a theorem of J. Ginsburg: if X is T₂ and H(X) is countably compact, then so is Xn for all n<ω. We also prove that, for κ<t, if the T₃ space X satisfies a weak form of R(κ), the orbit of every point in X is dense, and X contains κ pairwise disjoint open sets, then Xκ is countably compact. This generalizes the following theorem of J. Cao, T. Nogura, and A. Tomita: if X is T₃, homogeneous, and H(X) is countably compact, then so is Xω.Then we study the Frolík sum (also called “one-point countable-compactification”) of a family . We use the Frolík sum to produce countably compact spaces with additional properties (like first countability) whose hyperspaces are not countably compact. We also prove that any product _∏α<κH⁰(Xα) embeds into .     

Tychonoff products of compact spaces in ZF and closed ultrafilters

Let {(X_i, T_i): i ∈I } be a family of compact spaces and let X be their Tychonoff product. ??(X) denotes the family of all basic non‐trivial closed subsets of X and ??_R(X) denotes the family of all closed subsets H = V × ΠX_i of X, where V is a non‐trivial closed subset of ΠX_i and Q_H is a finite non‐empty subset of I. We show: (i) Every filterbase ?? ? ??_R(X) extends to a ??_R(X)‐ultrafilter ? if and only if every family H ? ??(X) with the finite intersection property (fip for abbreviation) extends to a maximal ??(X) family F with the fip. (ii) The proposition “if every filterbase ?? ? ??_R(X) extends to a ??_R(X)‐ultrafilter ?, then X is compact” is not provable in ZF. (iii) The statement “for every family {(X_i, T_i): i ∈ I } of compact spaces, every filterbase ?? ? ??_R(Y), Y = Π_{i ∈I}Y_i, extends to a ??_R(Y)‐ultrafilter ?” is equivalent to Tychonoff's compactness theorem. (iv) The statement “for every family {(X_i, T_i): i ∈ ω } of compact spaces, every countable filterbase ?? ? ??_R(X), X = Π_{i ∈ω}X_i, extends to a ??_R(X)‐ultrafilter ?” is equivalent to Tychonoff's compactness theorem restricted to countable families. (v) The countable Axiom of Choice is equivalent to the proposition “for every family {(X_i, T_i): i ∈ ω } of compact topological spaces, every countable family ?? ? ??(X) with the fip extends to a maximal ??(X) family ? with the fip” (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On a question by Corson about point-finite coverings

We answer in the affirmative the following question raised by H. H. Corson in 1961: “Is it possible to cover every Banach space X by bounded convex sets with non-empty interior in such a way that no point of X belongs to infinitely many of them?”Actually, we show the way to produce in every Banach space X a bounded convex tiling of order 2, i.e., a covering of X by bounded convex closed sets with non-empty interior (tiles) such that the interiors are pairwise disjoint and no point of X belongs to more than two tiles.     

Rational approximation to surfaces defined by polynomials in one variable

For a Tychonoff space X, we denote by C _p (X) the space of all real-valued continuous functions on X with the topology of pointwise convergence.

In this paper we prove that:

• If every finite power of X is Lindelöf then C _p (X) is strongly sequentially separable iff X is \({\gamma}\)-set.
• \({B_{\alpha}(X)}\) (= functions of Baire class \({\alpha}\) (\({1 < \alpha \leq \omega_1}\)) on a Tychonoff space X with the pointwise topology) is sequentially separable iff there exists a Baire isomorphism class \({\alpha}\) from a space X onto a \({\sigma}\)-set.
• \({B_{\alpha}(X)}\) is strongly sequentially separable iff \({iw(X)=\aleph_0}\) and X is a \({Z^{\alpha}}\)-cover \({\gamma}\)-set for \({0 < \alpha \leq \omega_1}\).
• There is a consistent example of a set of reals X such that C _p (X) is strongly sequentially separable but B₁(X) is not strongly sequentially separable.
• B(X) is sequentially separable but is not strongly sequentially separable for a \({\mathfrak{b}}\)-Sierpiński set X.

     

A spectral-like decomposition for transitive Anosov flows in dimension three

Given a (transitive or non-transitive) Anosov vector field X on a closed three dimensional manifold M, one may try to decompose (M, X) by cutting M along tori and Klein bottles transverse to X. We prove that one can find a finite collection \(\{S_1,\dots ,S_n\}\) of pairwise disjoint, pairwise non-parallel tori and Klein bottles transverse to X, such that the maximal invariant sets \(\Lambda _1,\dots ,\Lambda _m\) of the connected components \(V_1,\dots ,V_m\) of \(M-(S_1\cup \dots \cup S_n)\) satisfy the following properties:

• each \(\Lambda _i\) is a compact invariant locally maximal transitive set for X;
• the collection \(\{\Lambda _1,\dots ,\Lambda _m\}\) is canonically attached to the pair (M, X) (i.e. it can be defined independently of the collection of tori and Klein bottles \(\{S_1,\dots ,S_n\}\));
• the \(\Lambda _i\)’s are the smallest possible: for every (possibly infinite) collection \(\{S_i\}_{i\in I}\) of tori and Klein bottles transverse to X, the \(\Lambda _i\)’s are contained in the maximal invariant set of \(M-\cup _i S_i\).

To a certain extent, the sets \(\Lambda _1,\dots ,\Lambda _m\) are analogs (for Anosov vector field in dimension 3) of the basic pieces which appear in the spectral decomposition of a non-transitive axiom A vector field. Then we discuss the uniqueness of such a decomposition: we prove that the pieces of the decomposition \(V_1,\dots ,V_m\), equipped with the restriction of the Anosov vector field X, are “almost unique up to topological equivalence”.

     

A characterization of almost resolvable spaces

A space is said to be resolvable if it has two disjoint dense subsets. It is shown thatX is a Baire space with no resolvable open subsets iff every real function defined onX has a dense set of points of continuity. Thus almost resolvable spaces, as defined by Bolstein, are shown to be characterized as the union of a first category set and a closed resolvable set.     

On the S 2-Fication of Some Toric Varieties

In this article we prove the following:

1. Some results on the Cohen–Macaulayness of the canonical module;

2. We study the S ₂-fication of rings which are quotients by lattices ideals;

3. Given a simplicial lattice ideal of codimension two I, its Macaulayfication is given explicitly from a system of generators of I.

     

Monotone path systems in simple regions

A monotone path system (MPS) is a finite set of pairwise disjoint paths (polygonal areas) in thexy-plane such that every horizontal line intersects each of the paths in at most one point. A MPS naturally determines a pairing of its top points with its bottom points. We consider a simple polygon in thexy-plane wich bounds the simple polygonal (closed) regionD. LetT andB be two finite, disjoint, equicardinal sets of points ofD. We give a good characterization for the existence of a MPS inD which pairsT withB, and a good algorithm for finding such a MPS, and we solve the problem of finding all MPSs inD which pairT withB. We also give sufficient conditions for any such pairing to be the same.The first author's research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada     

SMOOTHNESS PROPERTIES OF REAL-VALUED FUNCTIONS BASED ON THEIR OSCILLATION

Abstract

We consider the following two selection principles for topological spaces:

Principle 1: For each sequence of dense subsets, there is a sequence of points from the space, the n-th point coming from the n-th dense set, such that this set of points is dense in the space;

Principle 2: For each sequence of dense subsets, there is a sequence of finite sets, the n-th a subset of the n-th dense set, such that the union of these finite sets is dense in the space.

We show that for separable metric space X one of these principles holds for the space C_p (X) of realvalued continuous functions equipped with the pointwise convergence topology if, and only if, a corresponding principle holds for a special family of open covers of X. An example is given to show that these equivalences do not hold in general for Tychonoff spaces. It is further shown that these two principles give characterizations for two popular cardinal numbers, and that these two principles are intimately related to an infinite game that was studied by Berner and Juhász.