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The projective $ \pi$-character bounds the order of a $ \pi$-base

Author(s): István Juhász; Zoltán Szentmiklóssy
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 2979-2984.
MSC (2000): Primary 54A25, 54C10, 54D70
Posted: April 2, 2008
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Abstract: All spaces below are Tychonov. We define the projective $ \pi$- character $ p\,\pi\chi(X)$ of a space $ X$ as the supremum of the values $ \pi\chi(Y)$ where $ Y$ ranges over all (Tychonov) continuous images of $ X$. Our main result says that every space $ X$ has a $ \pi$-base whose order is $ \le p\,\pi\chi(X)$; that is, every point in $ X$ is contained in at most $ p\,\pi\chi(X)$-many members of the $ \pi$-base. Since $ p\,\pi\chi(X) \le t(X)$ for compact $ X$, this is a significant generalization of a celebrated result of Shapirovskii.

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István Juhász
Affiliation: Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, POB 127, Budapest, H-1364 Hungary
Email: juhasz@renyi.hu

Zoltán Szentmiklóssy
Affiliation: Department of Analysis, Eötvös Loránt University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
Email: zoli@renyi.hu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09315-5
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09315-5
Keywords: Projective $\pi $-character, order of a $\pi $-base, irreducible map
Received by editor(s): March 28, 2007,
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 17, 2007
Posted: April 2, 2008
Additional Notes: This research was supported by OTKA grant no. 61600.
Communicated by: Alexander N. Dranishnikov
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
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