Abstract: | We construct an absolute retract X of arbitrarily high Borel complexity such that the countable power X ω is not universal for the Borelian class A 1 of sigma-compact spaces, and the product X ω x ∑, where ∑ is the radial interior of the Hilbert cube, is not universal for the Borelian class A 2 of absolute G δσ-spaces. |