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Hereditary topological diagonalizations and the Menger-Hurewicz Conjectures

Authors: Tomek Bartoszynski and Boaz Tsaban
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 605-615
MSC (2000): Primary 54G20, 54G15, 54D20
Posted: June 29, 2005
MathSciNet review: 2176030
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Abstract: We consider the question of 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 are provably hereditary. This is in contrast with the Borel case, where some of the classes are provably hereditary. Two of the examples are counter-examples of sizes $\mathfrak{d}$ and $\mathfrak{b}$ , respectively, to the Menger and Hurewicz Conjectures, and one of them answers a question of Steprans on perfectly meager sets.

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