Abstract
A combinatorial principle CECA is formulated and its equivalence with GCH + certain weakenings of □λ for singular A is proved. CECA is used to show that certain "almost point-< τ" families can be refined to point-< T families by removing a small set from each member of the family. This theorem in turn is used to show the consistency of "every first countable Ti-space with a weakly uniform base has a point-countable base."
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4971-4987 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Transactions of the American Mathematical Society |
| Volume | 352 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- GCH, D
- Point countable base
- Strongly almost disjoint families
- Weakly uniform base