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03C903BC-Additive Topological Spaces.
GIULIANO ARTICO - ROBERTO MORESCO
(*)
0. Introduction.
In
[S]
R. Sikorski has introducedwu-additive
spaces,strengthening
the axioms of Kuratowski for a
topological
space:namely
for every cardinal number m, herequires
that the intersection of less than Wtt many open sets is still an open set. This leads us to consider manyproperties
whichgeneralize
the usual ones such aswtt-compactness, wtt-metrizability, locally
Wtt covers, and tostudy
the relatedproblems.
In this
theory
some results have had formulationsquite
similarto the classical ones, some results cannot have an
analogous
statement(e.g.
theTychonoff product
theorem and the matter discussed in theremark of the second
section); finally
some otherquestions
have been studied but haveunsatisfactory solutions, partly
because the con-sidered context was not the
right (and natural)
one.In the first section we
point
out that thetopology »
is the
right topology
in theproduct
ofa),,-additive
spaces, and this remark enables us toimprove
a theorem of Yasui andgive
to it themost desirable formulation
(theorem 1.1).
Although
we have claimed thatwp,-compactness
is notproductive,
we show
(theorem 2.3)
that it isfinitely productive:
with this toolwe
get
thatwu-compact
spaces admit aunique a),,-additive uniformity (theorem 2.4), obtaining
asignificant improvement
of a result ofReichel.
By
the way, notice that means « Lindelöf »(*)
Ind.degli
AA.: Istituto di MatematicaApplicata -
Via Belzoni 7 - 35100 Padova.Lavoro
eseguito
nell’ambito del gruppo G.N.A.F.A. del C.N.R.and consider the statement: the
product of
twoLindelöf
spaces isLindelöf
»;everybody
knows that it is false in thegeneral
case, but the theorem 2.3 says that it is true in thecategory
ofwi-additive
spaces
(that is, P-spaces).
As
regards
the results which do not haveanalogues
in thew,u-ad-
ditive spaces, we observe that the reason for this
pathological
be-haviour lies
chiefly
in the existence ofsingular
cardinals(see again
the remark of the second
section):
and this obstacleclearly
cannotbe overcome.
Going
on, we state and prove atheorem (3.4)
whose main result is that what we could define as a kind of« wu-paracompactness»
isreally nothing
butparacompactness.
In the last
paragraph
we remark thatm,-compact topologies
areminimal among the
wp,-additive (Hausdorff )
ones and formulate someresults
concerning
with theminimality
ofwu-additive topologies.
1.
Topological
and uniformwu-products.
Every topological
space is assumed to be Hausdorff .Throughout
the paper (op will denote an initialordinal,
X a Haus-dorff
topological
space, U auniformity given
as afamily
ofentourages
of the
diagonal.
We say that X is
wtradditive
orwu-topological
if the intersection of less than Wp, many open sets is an openset;
U is anwu-uniformity
and
(.X’, U)
is anwu-uniform
space if the intersection of less than Wp, manyentourages
is anentourage.
Clearly
if cw, «(o/,- topological (uniform) » implies « ao-topolo- gical (uniform)
>>; and it is easy to show that if Wp, is asingular ordinal,
then «
wu-topological (uniform) » implies
«wu+1-topological (uniform) »:
hence
dealing
with these spaces we may assume that Wp, is aregular (initial)
ordinal: we shall make thisassumption
from now on.Denote
by ~,
Urespectively
thecategories
oftopological
anduniform spaces and
by %p, (u,~)
the fullsubcategory
of %(U) consisting
of
wu-topological (-uniform)
spaces;clearly %0 = %, Uo = U. %p,
andU,
are closed underarbitrary products, coproducts
andsubspaces:
however,
whilecoproducts
andsubspaces
coincide in~,~
andand
U),
we have a different behaviour ofproducts:
that isquite
natural since the usual
product
fails to bewp,-additive
0. The(og-topological product
of spacesXs, s
E~’,
is denotedby a ~ ~s
andsES
defined as the Cartesian
product
of theXs equipped
with thetopology
generated by
the subsets of the form: XsV
S open inXs,
for less than cop many
indexes}. Similarly
ifU,
is anco/,-uni- formity
onXs,
define thewu-uniform product
as the Cartesianproduct equipped
with theuniformity generated by
theentourages ~( (xs), ( ys ) ) :
S for less than Wp, manyindexes}.
It turns out
easily
that thetopology (uniformity)
introduced above is the weakestwu-topology (uniformity)
such that all theprojections
are continuous
(uniformly continuous) ;
moreover ifXS
is anccy-topo- logical
space and itstopology
is inducedby
theuniformity Us,
thenthe
topology of a fl XS
is inducedby
theuniformity
of thewp,-uni-
SES
form
product.
These considerations show that theconcept
ofa)/,-topo- logical (uniform) product (introduced
in[MS])
arisesquite naturally
in the
category %, (Uu).
Furthermore we recallthat,
foru # 0, wp,-ad-
ditive
regular
spaces are 0-dimensional[E]:
therefore such a space ofweight
m can be embedded in{0, 1 }m:
observe then that the usualdiagonal embedding
is still anembedding equipping {0,
with them,-product topology. Finally
in this section we considerwp,-metrizable
spaces: it is well known that these spaces are
exactly
the(a),-additive)
ones which admit a
uniformity
with atotally
ordered(for
the reversedinclusion)
basis whosecofinality
is m, ; Yasui in[Y]
obtained apartial
result on the
coa-metrizability
of aproduct
ofwlt-metrizable
spaces:we extend his result and show that the
analogy
with the usual metriccase is
complete.
1.1. THEOREM. Let be a
family
ofwu-metrizable
spaces each of them
containing
at least twopoints; then Il 11 Xa
iswp,-metrizable
if andonly
ifPROOF.
Necessity:
suppose mr > and choose apoint
x E flTI Xa;
since in the
co,-metrizable
spaces theweight
at anypoint
is less than orequal
to it isenough
to show that theweight
at x isgreater
thancv, : in fact if we take a
family
of power less than orequal
to ofbasic open
neighbourhoods of x,
then the collection of the indexes (Xfor which the
projection
pa of someneighbourhood
is a proper sub- set ofXa
hascardinality
less than orequal
to WfJ,.Sufficiency: clearly
it isenough
to prove the result for = mr.Every Xa
admits acompatible uniformity
with atotally
ordered basis ofentourages,
say{1~: ~ }~2 implies Va,¡:¿ TTa,~,2~.
Considerthe sets:
using
the fact that Wp, isregular
observe that thefamily {W~: ~
is a basis for the
m,-uniform product which,
as we have remarkedabove,
is admissible for2. spaces.
DEFINITION. We say that a space is
coIL-compact
if it iscoIL-ad-
ditive and every open cover has a subcover of power less than
Trivially,
ytaking
thecomplements,
one sees that ana)A-additive
space is
wu-compact
if andonly
if everyfamily
of closed sets suchthat each intersection of less than COIL many elements is
non-empty,
yhas
non-empty
intersection.These spaces have been studied
by
several authors(see
e.g.[MS], [R], [S], [ST], [Y])
and were introducedby
R. Sikorski who used for them the term «COIL- bicompact
».In the
following proposition
we collect some folkloristicproperties
of
coIL-compact
spaces.2.1. PROPOSITION:
i)
closedsubspaces
ofcoIL-compact
spaces arecoIL-compact;
ii) cott-compact subspaces
ofcoIL-additive
spaces areclosed;
iii) cott-additive
continuousimages
ofcoIL-compact
spaces are COIL-compact ;
iv) cott-compact
spaces are normal.The
proof
istrivial, using a)/,-additivity. 0
Clearly
a discrete space of power less than iscoIL-compact;
moregenerally
thecoproduct
of less than (oA manywu-compact
spaces iswu-compact too;
moreover weget
anexample
of a non discrete COIL-compact
space as follows: denoteby X
U a space where X is adiscrete space of power
greater
than orequal
to COIL(always
assumedregular)
and oo is apoint
whoseneighbourhoods
are the sets whichcontain oo and have
complements
of power less than COIL.REMARK. Given an
wu-additive
spaceX,
each of thefollowing
conditions
implies
the next one:i)
every subset of X of powergreater
than orequal
to COIL hasa
complete
accumulationpoint;
ii)
X iswu-compact;
iii)
every subset of .X whose power is aregular
cardinal numbergreater
than orequal
to coo has acomplete
accumulationpoint.
One can show
i)
=>ii) using
theargument
of[K],
Problem 5I,
with the suitable
modifications;
theproof
ofii)
=>iii)
is standard.It is clear that here and in other cases the difference of the be- haviour between
compact
and spacesdepends
on the ex-istence of
singular
initial ordinal numbers. We cangive
anexample
for which
ii)
=>i)
fails to be true.For n
e Ny
let be the discrete space of power Wn,Xn
=X n U
where the
neighbourhoods
of thepoint
p. are the sets:where 9
XnBV
iscountable; X
isa),-compact
since itis the
coproduct
of a countablefamily
ofw1-compact
spaces, andclearly
its power is nevertheless the set of all the
points
of X has nocomplete
accumulationpoint since,
asXn
is an open set in .X for every ne Ny
everypoint
has aneighbourhood
of power less than 0 We say that a filter Y is anwu-filter
if the intersection of less than m, many members of Ybelongs
to 5;-. Them,-compact
spaces canbe characterized in terms of
wu-filters.
2.2. PROPOSITION. Let X be an
wll-additive
space. Thefollowing
are
equivalent:
i)
.X iswu-compact;
ii)
everya),,,-filter
has a clusterpoint;
iii)
everywll-filter
is contained in aconvergent
filter.PROOF.
i)
~ii): by
definitions.ii)
=>i): using
theregularity
of one can show that afamily
of closed sets such that each intersection of less than WIl many sets is
non-empty,
can beenlarged
to ana),,-filter,
hence the conclusion follows.ii)
=>iii):
standardusing wtt-additivity.
iii)
~ii) :
trivial.We say that an
m,-filter
on X is anwll-ultrafilter
if there is nowll-filter
which contains itproperly;
we show that anwu-ultrafilter F
is an ultrafilter: otherwise there would such that
A n
.I’‘ ~ 0,
VFe Y,
and A W Y could be embedded in an(o,-filter containing :F properly.
Moreover observe that if X has non-measur-able power
and p
=1=0,
there is no freewu-ultrafilter,
hencea),,-ultra-
filters cannot
give
any information aboutwu-compactness.
It is known that
(og-compactness
is notproductive
in the cat-egory
~,~ :
indeed in thiscategory
theproduct
of cv, manycompact
spaces need not be even
wu-compact (see [MS]).
However we canprovide
a result in thepositive
direction:2.3. THEOREM. If X and Y are
wu-compact
spaces, then X X Y iswu-compact.
PROOF. Let ‘LU be a cover of
X X Y,
‘lr a basic cover whichrefines ‘LU and denote
by
piy P2 the canonicalprojections
onto X and Yrespectively.
For every take~p~( V ) :
V E91, x}:
this isan open cover of Y and let
91S(x),x=
s E be a subcover ofit,
indexed in a setS(x)
of pow er less than cv,; now for every choose an open setUs,x containing
x and such thatUs,x
Xbelongs
to
Ux =
is still an open set/containing
x since X isditive, hence {Ux:
is an open cover of .X and has a subcover indexed in a subset X’ of X of power less than Fi-nally
it is easy to showx E X’, s c- S(x)l
is an opencover which refines flJ and its power is less than cv, since is
regular.
It is well known
(see [I], VII.30)
that acompletely regular
spaceis
wu-additive
if andonly
if it admits anwu-uniformity (however
noticethat our definitions are a little more
general
than the ones usedby Isbell).
With thefollowing
theorem weprovide
a result which gen- eralizes in the most natural direction a fundamental theorem in thetheory
ofcompact
spaces;by
the way we observe that it containsas a
particular
case the theorem 5.2 of[R].
2.4. THEOREM. An
wu-compact space X
admitsexactly
onea)/,-uni- formity.
PROOF.
By Proposition
2.1iv),
X iscompletely regular,
hence itadmits an
wu-uniformity.
Now let U be acompatible wu-uniform- ity,
V an open subset of X X Xcontaining
thediagonal L1;
sinced
= n {U: U E U}
and X X X iswu-compact by
the theorem2.3,
there exists a a coy such
that n
V‘ : there- fore Vbelongs
to U and U is the fineuniformity.
3.
Paracompactness.
DEFINITION. A
family A
of subsets of a space X is said to belocally
(o, if for every x E X there exists aneighbourhood
V of x such that thefamily ~A
e A: .A. r1V~ ~ 01
has power less than Wp.(hence
«locally
meanslocally finite >>) .
3.1. LEMMA. Let X be an
wu-additive space, A
alocally family
of subsets of
X ; then, denoting by
cl A the closure of the setA,
wehave:
The
proof
isplain using wu-additivity.
3.2. LEMMA. Let X be an
roll-additive regular
space, a ~0,
suchthat every open cover is refined
by
alocally
roll open cover; then Xis normal.
PROOF. Let
.A,
B bedisjoint
closed subsets ofX;
for every x E B there exists aclopen
setTrx
which contains x and does not meet A.Let ~ be a
locally
roll open refinement of the cover UPut for some we have
for every and
finally
U E = U
{cl
U: U E does not meet A. o3.3. LEMMA. Let X be an
roll-additive
normal 0. Forevery
pair
ofdisjoint
closed setsA, B
there exists aclopen
which contains A and does not meet B.PROOF.
Inductively
choose a sequence of open setsAn
such that:which is closed
by (o,-additivity. m
3.4. THEOREM. Let X be an
oj,-additive regular
space, p ~ 0. Thefollowing
areequivalent:
i)
every open cover is refinedby
alocally
m, open cover;ii)
every open cover is refinedby
alocally
co,arbitrary
cover;iii)
every open cover is refinedby
alocally
m, closed cover;iv)
every open cover is refinedby
alocally
COp,clopen
cover;v)
X isultraparacompact;
vi)
~ isparacompact.
PROOF.
Clearly part
of the statement and of theproof
of thistheorem follows the theorem 5.1.4 of
[E].
i)
=>ii):
trivial.ii)
=>iii):
let flL be an open cover, ’U an open cover such thatV e flJ)
is a refinement of’tL,
V alocally
o, cover which re-fines flf: then the cover W E
W)
is alocally
COp, refinementof flL.
iii)
~iv):
let CU, be an opencover, A
alocally
Wp, closed coverwhich refines for every let
V(x)
be aneighbourhood
of x whichmeets less than Wp, many elements of
~,
and take alocally
Wp, closedcover flf which refines
{V(x): x
EXI.
For every A chooseUA
such that A and
put: W A = UABV ~Y :
V Eflf,
Y r1 A =01.
Clear-ly
is openby
lemma 3 .1 hence A eA)
is an open cover(since A) ;
we show that this cover islocally
COp,: in fact if V E ’U’ does not meetA,
then V does not meet moreover every V E ‘lx is contained in a certainY(x)
and so it meets less than many el- ements(of A hence)
of A E Now for every choose aneighbourhood I (x)
of x such thatI (x)
meets less than Wp, many el- ements V Eby
theregularity
of and theprevious
observationswe
get: I (x)
r10
holds for less than cvu manyFinally by
lemmas 3.2 and
3.3,
for every A take aclopen
setW]
such thatA c
WA: clearly {W::
A EAl
is alocally
COp,clopen
cover whichrefines U.
iv)
=>v):
let ctL be an open cover, ’U’ alocally
cv,clopen
coverwhich refines For every
put Ax = n {V:
V 3x~,
since holds for less than COp, many V E
Ax
is open; furthermoreBx
is closedby
lem-ma 3.1 so that is open
(trivially
it is closed and containsx).
Nowobserve that if a
point y belongs
toWx ,
then V E ‘l7 contains x if andonly
if it contains y : henceWv
and conclude that the setsW~,
form a
partition
ofclopen
sets which refines U.v)
=>vi)
=>i):
trivial.A standard
argument (see again
theorem 5.1.4[E])
shows that the six conditions of theorem 3.4 areequivalent
to:vii)
every open cover of X is refinedby
a cover which is union of manylocally
families of open sets.Using
this condition we can prove thefollowing corollary
whichcontains the third statement of VII.31
[I]
and as aparticular
casethat every
wu-compact
space isultraparacompact, for fl =1=
0.3.5. COROLLARY.
For fl =1= 0,
everyregular wp,-additive
space X such that every open cover has a subcover of power atmost
isultraparacompact.
Moreover
using
anwp,-metrization
theorem due toWang
ShuTang ( [W],
theorem6)
we can obtain as acorollary that, 0,
every
wu-metrizable
space isultraparacompact ( [H] ) .
4. Minimal
co,-,-additive topologies.
By
means ofproposition
2.1 weget
thefollowing
theorem:4.1. THEOREM. Let
f :
X - Y be a continuousinjective function,
X
(o,-compact,
Ywp,-additive;
thenf
is ahomeomorphism
onto itsimage.
Hence thewu-compact topologies
are minimal among thewu-additive
ones.In view of this
theorem,
we shall conclude with some considera- tions about the minimalobjects
in thecategory Z,,;
we shall omitthe details since the
proofs
in this case and in the usualtopological
spaces
proceed
at the samerate, naturally
withoutlosing sight
ofwu-additivity.
For references and definitions related to thismatter,
see
[E], [PT].
4.2. LEMMA. Given an
wp,-additive
space, thetopology consisting
of all open domains
( [E] )
is stillwu-additive.
DEFINITIONS. We say that an
wp,-additive
space .X iswu-absolutely
closed if it is a closed subset of every
wu-additive (Hausdorff )
spacecontaining
it. Aproximate
cover is afamily
of subsets of X whose union is dense in X.4.3. THEOREM. An
ay-additive
space X iswit-absolutely
closed ifand
only
if every open cover has aproximate
subcover of power less than4.4. PROPOSITION:
i)
closed domains ofwit-absolutely
closed spaces arewit-ab- solutely closed;
ii)
continuouswit-additive images
ofwit-absolutely
closed spacesare
wit-absolutely
closed.PROOF. Use theorem 4.3.
4.5. THEOREM:
i)
letf :
X - Y be a continuousinjective function,
.Xwit-ab- solutely
closed andsemiregular,
Ywu-additive;
thenf
is ahomeomorphism
onto itsimage.
ii)
atopology
on X is minimal among thewit-additive
ones ifand
only
if it iswit-absolutely
closed andsemiregular.
PROOF. Use
proposition
4.4 to provei);
usei)
and lemma 4.2to prove
ii).
Finally,
forwit-additive regular
spaces, we can state thefollowing
theorem which summarizes the
previous
results:4.6. THEOREM. Let X be an
wit-additive regular
space. The fol-lowing
areequivalent:
i)
X iswit-compact;
ii)
thetopology
of X is minimal withrespect
to thewit-ad-
ditive ones;
iii)
X’ iswit-absolutely closed;
iv)
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