{ "id": "1107.1435", "version": "v2", "published": "2011-07-07T15:57:18.000Z", "updated": "2011-10-22T22:01:33.000Z", "title": "For Hausdorff spaces, $H$-closed = $D$-pseudocompact for all ultrafilters $D$", "authors": [ "Paolo Lipparini" ], "comment": "v. 2: added some results, some remarks, various minor improvements. 7 pages. v. 1: 4 pages", "categories": [ "math.GN" ], "abstract": "We prove that, for an arbitrary topological space $X$, the following two conditions are equivalent: (a) Every open cover of $X$ has a finite subset with dense union (b) $X$ is $D$-pseudocompact, for every ultrafilter $D$. Locally, our result asserts that if $X$ is weakly initially $\\lambda$-compact, and $2^ \\mu \\leq \\lambda $, then $X$ is $D$-\\brfrt pseudocompact, for every ultrafilter $D$ over any set of cardinality $ \\leq \\mu$. As a consequence, if $2^ \\mu \\leq \\lambda $, then the product of any family of weakly initially $\\lambda$-compact spaces is weakly initially $\\mu$-compact.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2011-10-22T22:01:33.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "54D20", "54B10", "54A20" ], "keywords": [ "hausdorff spaces", "pseudocompact", "ultrafilter", "result asserts" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1107.1435L" } } }