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Property Suggestion: Strongly collectionwise normal

Open Moniker1998 opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Property Suggestion

A space is said to be strongly collectionwise normal or divisible (name divisible already exists for other properties related to cleavability of spaces) provided that for each neighbourhood $U\subseteq X\times X$ of the diagonal $\Delta_X = {(x, x) : x\in X}$ of $X\times X$ there exists a neighbourhood $V$ of $\Delta_X$ such that $V\circ V\subseteq U$.

Rationale

This property appears in the textbooks General topology by Kelley (in a conjecture, not named explicitly; Kelley references a result of Cohen) and papers Strong Collectionwise Normality and M. E. Rudin's Dowker Space by K. P. Hart, for example.

The property has a particular form for completely regular spaces: A completely regular space $X$ is strongly collectionwise normal if and only if the family of all neighbourhoods of the diagonal is the largest admissible uniformity on $X$.

Relationship to other properties

Every strongly collectionwise normal space is collectionwise normal. Every fully normal space is strongly collectionwise normal.

Moniker1998 avatar Dec 02 '24 00:12 Moniker1998

Note that example 207 from the above PR could be improved in the future if we were to add the property monotonically normal to pi-base, since its an example of a monotonically normal space which isn't strongly collectionwise normal. On the other extreme end, there exist countable $T_3$ space which isn't monotonically normal, see here. In particular, even if we demand that every subspace of $T_1$ space $X$ is fully normal, this still wouldn't imply that $X$ is monotonically normal.

This shows that the property fully normal and monotonically normal are pretty much incomparable with each other.

Zrzut ekranu 2024-12-03 173720

Here is a diagram I made. It shows that all the properties we are interested it are in fact not reversible.

The addition of uncountable $\Sigma$-product of $\omega$ would be good as an example.

Moniker1998 avatar Dec 03 '24 16:12 Moniker1998

Very useful diagram. I am planning to add hereditarily collectionwise normal and monotonically normal very soon.

prabau avatar Dec 03 '24 20:12 prabau