An Efimov space from Martin's Axiom

Alan Dow, Saharon Shelah

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Abstract

We show that the existence of an Efimov space follows from a weak set-theoretic hypothesis. An Efimov space is a compact space containing no infinite converging sequence and no copy of the Stone-Cech compact-ification of the integers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1423-1435
Number of pages13
JournalHouston Journal of Mathematics
Volume39
Issue number4
StatePublished - 2013

Keywords

  • Converging sequence
  • Efimov space
  • Martin's Axiom
  • Minimal Boolean algebra

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