{ "id": "math/0609092", "version": "v1", "published": "2006-09-04T07:19:09.000Z", "updated": "2006-09-04T07:19:09.000Z", "title": "Resolvability and monotone normality", "authors": [ "Istvan Juhasz", "Lajos Soukup", "Zoltan Szentmiklossy" ], "categories": [ "math.GN", "math.LO" ], "abstract": "A space $X$ is said to be $\\kappa$-resolvable (resp. almost $\\kappa$-resolvable) if it contains $\\kappa$ dense sets that are pairwise disjoint (resp. almost disjoint over the ideal of nowhere dense subsets). $X$ is maximally resolvable iff it is $\\Delta(X)$-resolvable, where $\\Delta(X) = \\min\\{|G| : G \\ne \\emptyset {open}\\}.$ We show that every crowded monotonically normal (in short: MN) space is $\\omega$-resolvable and almost $\\mu$-resolvable, where $\\mu = \\min\\{2^{\\omega}, \\omega_2 \\}$. On the other hand, if $\\kappa$ is a measurable cardinal then there is a MN space $X$ with $\\Delta(X) = \\kappa$ such that no subspace of $X$ is $\\omega_1$-resolvable. Any MN space of cardinality $< \\aleph_\\omega$ is maximally resolvable. But from a supercompact cardinal we obtain the consistency of the existence of a MN space $X$ with $|X| = \\Delta(X) = \\aleph_{\\omega}$ such that no subspace of $X$ is $\\omega_2$-resolvable.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2006-09-04T07:19:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "54A35", "03E35", "54A25" ], "keywords": [ "monotone normality", "resolvable", "mn space", "resolvability", "supercompact cardinal" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2006math......9092J" } } }