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On non-measurability of ${\ell_\infty}/c_0$ in its second dual

Author(s): Dennis K. Burke; Roman Pol
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 3955-3959.
MSC (2000): Primary 54C35; Secondary 28A05, 54H05
Posted: June 30, 2003
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Abstract: We show that ${\ell_\infty}/c_0=C(\mathbb{N} ^*)$ with the weak topology is not an intersection of $\aleph_1$ Borel sets in its Cech-Stone extension (and hence in any compactification). Assuming (CH), this implies that $(C(\mathbb{N} ^*),\mathrm{weak})$ has no continuous injection onto a Borel set in a compact space, or onto a Lindelöf space. Under (CH), this answers a question of Arhangel'ski{\u{\i}}\kern.15em.

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Additional Information:

Dennis K. Burke
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056-9987
Email: burkedk@muohio.edu

Roman Pol
Affiliation: Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, Warsaw University, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland
Email: pol@mimuw.edu.pl

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-06983-1
PII: S 0002-9939(03)06983-1
Keywords: Borel sets, C-measurable, function spaces, pointwise topology, weak topology, condensation, \v Cech-Stone compactification
Received by editor(s): July 9, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 1, 2002
Posted: June 30, 2003
Additional Notes: The second author is grateful to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Miami University for its hospitality during the work on this paper
The authors wish to thank the referee for a very prompt report with suggestions which improved the exposition of this paper
Communicated by: Alan Dow
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society

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