Pseudocompact Spaces

Pseudocompact Spaces

Maximal pseudocompact spaces

Maximal pseudocompact spaces (i.e. pseudocompact spaces possessing no strictly stronger pseudocompact topology) are characterized. It is shown that submaximal pseudocompact spaces whose pseudocompact subspaces are closed need not be maximal pseudocompact. Various techniques for constructing maximal pseudocompact spaces are described. Maximal pseudocompactness is compared to maximal feeble compa...

Spaces Whose Pseudocompact Subspaces Are Closed Subsets

Every first countable pseudocompact Tychonoff space X has the property that every pseudocompact subspace of X is a closed subset of X (denoted herein by “FCC”). We study the property FCC and several closely related ones, and focus on the behavior of extension and other spaces which have one or more of these properties. Characterization, embedding and product theorems are obtained, and some exam...

Some results and problems about weakly pseudocompact spaces

A space X is truly weakly pseudocompact if X is either weakly pseudocompact or Lindelöf locally compact. We prove: (1) every locally weakly pseudocompact space is truly weakly pseudocompact if it is either a generalized linearly ordered space, or a protometrizable zero-dimensional space with χ(x,X) > ω for every x ∈ X; (2) every locally bounded space is truly weakly pseudocompact; (3) for ω < κ...

On a class of pseudocompact spaces derived from ring epimorphisms

A Tychonoff space X is called RG if the embedding of C(X) → C(Xδ) is an epimorphism of rings. Compact RG spaces are known and easily described. We study the pseudocompact RG spaces. These must be scattered of finite Cantor Bendixon degree but need not be locally compact. However, under strong hypotheses, (countable compactness, or small cardinality) these spaces must, indeed, be compact. The ma...