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The Character of Certain Closed Sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Mary Anne Swardson
Mary Anne Swardson*
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Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
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Let X be a topological space and let A ⊂ X. The character of A in X is the minimal cardinal of a base for the neighborhoods of A in X. Previous studies have shown that the character of certain subsets of X (or of X2) is related to compactness conditions on X. For example, in [12], Ginsburg proved that if the diagonal

of a space X has countable character in X2, then X is metrizable and the set of nonisolated points of X is compact. In [2], Aull showed that if every closed subset of X has countable character, then the set of nonisolated points of X is countably compact. In [18], we noted that if every closed subset of X has countable character, then MA + ┐ CH (Martin's axiom with the negation of the continuum hypothesis) implies that X is paracompact.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1984 , pp. 38 - 57
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1984

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