The box product of countably many copies of the rationals is consistently paracompact
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Abstract:
By proving the theorem stated in the title, we show that local compactness in the factor spaces is not necessary for paracompactness in the box product.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1988 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 309 (1988), 787-796
- MSC: Primary 54D18; Secondary 54A35, 54B10, 54B20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1988-0961613-0
- MathSciNet review: 961613