• Title of article

    Spaces with unique Hausdorff extensions

  • Author/Authors

    Mooney، نويسنده , , Douglas D.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1995
  • Pages
    16
  • From page
    241
  • To page
    256
  • Abstract
    H-closed extensions of Hausdorff spaces have been studied extensively as a generalization of compactifications of Tychonoff spaces. The collection of H-closed extensions of a space is known to have an upper semilattice structure. Little work has been done to characterize spaces whose collections of H-closed extensions have specified upper semilattice structures. In 1970 J.R. Porter found necessary and sufficient conditions on a space so that it would have exactly one one-point H-closed extension. He asked for a characterization of those spaces which have exactly one H-closed extension. This is the same as having exactly one Hausdorff extension. In this paper we answer Porterʹs question and give an example of such a space. Topological sums of this space give spaces which have two, five, or in general, p(n) many H-closed extensions where p(n) is the number of ways a set of size n can be partitioned. This space is also an example of a space with exactly one free prime open filter which gives an answer to a question asked by J. Pelant, P. Simon, and J. Vaughan. As a preliminary for obtaining the above results, we find necessary and sufficient conditions on a space so that the S- and θ-equivalence relations defined by J.R. Porter and C. Votaw are equivalent.
  • Keywords
    EXTENSION , Hausdorff , H-closed extension , H-bounded set , Open filter , Prime open filter , Semilattice , lattice
  • Journal title
    Topology and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    1995
  • Journal title
    Topology and its Applications
  • Record number

    1578564