a Department of Mathematics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
b Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Av. Michoacan y La Purísima, Iztapalapa A.P. 55-532, C.P. 09340, México, DF, Mexico
Abstract:
We prove that any metrizable non-compact space has a weaker metrizable nowhere locally compact topology. As a consequence, any metrizable non-compact space has a weaker Hausdorff connected topology. The same is established for any Hausdorff space X with a σ-locally finite base whose weight w(X) is a successor cardinal.