In this paper we formulate three problems concerning topological properties of sets generating Borel non-sigma-compact groups. In case of the concrete F_σδ-subgroup of the Cantor group this gives an equivalent reformulation of the Scheepers diagram problem.
Let xi be a non-null countable ordinal. We study the Borel subsets of the plane that can be made $\bormxi$ by refining the Polish topology on the real line. These sets are called potentially $\bormxi$. We give a Hurewicz-like test to recognize potentially $\bormxi$ sets.
We give, for some Borel sets of a product of two Polish spaces, including the Borel sets with countable sections, a Hurewicz-like characterization of those which cannot become a transfinite difference of open sets by changing the two Polish topologies.
We give characterizations of the Borel sets potentially in some Wadge class, among the Borel sets with countable vertical sections of a product of two Polish spaces. To do this, we use some partial uniformization results.
We consider the question, which of the major classes defined by topological diagonalizations of open or Borel covers is hereditary. Many of the classes in the open case are not hereditary already in ZFC, and none of them is provably hereditary. This is contrasted with the Borel case, where some of the classes are provably hereditary. Two of the examples are counter-examples of sizes d$ and b, respectively, to the Menger and Hurewicz Conjectures, and one of them answers a question of Steprans on perfectly meager sets.
We give, for each level of complexity L, a Hurewicz-like characterization of the Borel subsets with countable sections of a product of two Polish spaces that cannot become in L by changing the two Polish topologies.
We study the relation between the Hurewicz and Menger properties of filters considered topologically as subspaces of P(ω) with the Cantor set topology.
We develop the semifilter approach to the classical Menger and Hurewicz covering properties and show that the small cardinal g is a lower bound of the additivity number of the family of Menger subspaces of the Baire space, and under u< g every subset X of the real line with the property Split(Lambda,Lambda) is Hurewicz.
CONTENTS OF THE ISSUE: Hurewicz-like tests for Borel subsets of the plane; Ordered Spaces, Metric Preimages, and Function Algebras; On the independence of a generalized statement of Egoroff's theorem from ZFC, after T. Weiss; Forty annotated questions about large topological groups; Strong compactness and a partition property; Countable Borel equivalence relations and quotient Borel spaces; Decisive creatures and large continuum; Models of real-valued measurability; Hausdorff ultrafilters; Block combinatorics; Maharam's problem; Universality of uniform Eberlein compacta; Linearly ordered compa…
We prove that the countable product of lines contains a Borel linear subspace $L\ne\mathbb R^ω$ that cannot be covered by countably many closed Haar-meager sets. This example is applied to studying the interplay between various classes of ``large'' sets and Kuczma--Ger classes in the topological vector spaces $\mathbb R^n$ for $n\le ω$.
We study the preservation of selective covering properties, including classic ones introduced by Menger, Hurewicz, Rothberger, Gerlits and Nagy, and others, under products with some major families of concentrated sets of reals. Our methods include the projection method introduced by the authors in an earlier work, as well as several new methods. Some special consequences of our main results are (definitions provided in the paper): \be \item Every product of a concentrated space with a Hurewicz $\sone(\Ga,\Op)$ space satisfies $\sone(\Ga,\Op)$. On the other hand, assuming \CH{}, for each Sierpi…
We want to give a construction as simple as possible of a Borel subset of a product of two Polish spaces. This introduces the notion of potential Wadge class. Among other things, we study the non-potentially closed sets, by proving Hurewicz-like results. This leads to partial uniformization theorems, on big sets, in the sense of cardinality or Baire category.
Let $ξ\geq 1$ be a countable ordinal. We study the Borel subsets of the plane that can be made ${\bfΠ}^0_ξ$ by refining the Polish topology on the real line. These sets are called potentially ${\bfΠ}^0_ξ$. We give a Hurewicz-like test to recognize potentially ${\bfΠ}^0_ξ$ sets.
We give an affirmative answer to the following question: Is any Borel subset of a Cantor set $\textbf{ C}$ a sum of a countable number of pairwise disjoint $h$-homogeneous subspaces that are closed in $X$? It follows that every Borel set $X \subset \textbf{ R}^n$ can be partitioned into countably many $h$-homogeneous subspaces that are $G_δ$-sets in $X$.
We construct several topological groups with very strong combinatorial properties. In particular, we give simple examples of subgroups of the real line R (thus strictly o-bounded) which have the Hurewicz property but are not sigma-compact, and show that the product of two o-bounded subgroups of R^N may fail to be o-bounded, even when they satisfy the stronger property S1(Borel_Omega,Borel_Omega). This solves a problem of Tkacenko and Hernandez, and extends independent solutions of Krawczyk and Michalewski and of Banakh, Nickolas, and Sanchis. We also construct separable metrizable groups G of …
W. Hurewicz proved that analytic Menger sets of reals are $σ$-compact and that co-analytic completely Baire sets of reals are completely metrizable. It is natural to try to generalize these theorems to projective sets. This has previously been accomplished by $V = L$ for projective counterexamples, and the Axiom of Projective Determinacy for positive results. For the first problem, the first author, S. Todorcevic, and S. Tokgöz have produced a finer analysis with much weaker axioms. We produce a similar analysis for the second problem, showing the two problems are essentially equivalent. We al…
We show that the continuum hypothesis implies there exists a Lindelof space X such that X x X is the union of two metrizable subspaces but X is not metrizable. This gives a consistent solution to a problem of Balogh, Gruenhage, and Tkachuk. The main lemma is that assuming the continuum hypothesis there exist disjoint sets of reals X and Y such that X is Borel concentrated on Y, (i.e., for any Borel set B if Y is contained in B then X-B is countable,) but (X x X - diagonal) is relatively Fsigma in (X x X) U (Y x Y).
The_additivity_number_ of a topological property (relative to a given space) is the minimal number of subspaces with this property whose union does not have the property. The most well-known case is where this number is greater than Aleph_0, i.e. the property is sigma-additive. We give a rather complete survey of the known results about the additivity numbers of a variety of topological covering properties, including those appearing in the Scheepers diagram (which contains, among others, the classical properties of Menger, Hurewicz, Rothberger, and Gerlits-Nagy). Some of the results proved her…
Contents: 1. Editor's note 2. Research announcements 2.1. Pseudocompact group topologies with no infinite compact subsets 2.2. Selective coideals on (FIN[1]k) 2.3. Entire functions mapping uncountable dense sets of reals onto each other monotonically 2.4. Effective refining of Borel coverings 2.5. Symmetry and colorings: Some results and open problems 2.6. Many partition relations below density 2.7. Lindelof indestructibility, topological games and selection principles 2.8. Locally precompact groups: (Local) realcompactness and connectedness 2.9. The group Aut is Roelcke precompact 2.10. An in…