On the extent of separable, locally compact, selectively $(a)$-spaces

Samuel G. da Silva¹

¹ Instituto de Matemática Universidade Federal da Bahia Av. Adhemar de Barros, S/N, Ondina CEP 40170-110, Salvador, BA, Brazil

Colloquium Mathematicum, Tome 141 (2015) no. 2, pp. 199-208.

Résumé

The author has recently shown (2014) that separable, selectively $(a)$-spaces cannot include closed discrete subsets of size $\mathfrak {c}$. It follows that, assuming $\mathbf {CH}$, separable selectively $(a)$-spaces necessarily have countable extent. However, in the same paper it is shown that the weaker hypothesis ‶$2^{\aleph _0} 2^{\aleph _1}$″ is not enough to ensure the countability of all closed discrete subsets of such spaces. In this paper we show that if one adds the hypothesis of local compactness, a specific effective (i.e., Borel) parametrized weak diamond principle implies countable extent in this context.

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DOI : 10.4064/cm141-2-5

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