EMBEDDINGS OF FREE TOPOLOGICAL VECTOR SPACES

It is proved that the free topological vector space $\mathbb{V}([0,1])$ contains an isomorphic copy of the free topological vector space $\mathbb{V}([0,1]^{n})$ for every finite-dimensional cube $[0,1]^{n}$, thereby answering an open question in the literature. We show that this result cannot be extended from the closed unit interval $[0,1]$ to general metrisable spaces. Indeed, we prove that the free topological vector space $\mathbb{V}(X)$ does not even have a vector subspace isomorphic as a topological vector space to $\mathbb{V}(X\oplus X)$, where $X$ is a Cook continuum, which is a one-dimensional compact metric space. This is also shown to be the case for a rigid Bernstein set, which is a zero-dimensional subspace of the real line.

Large Function Algebras with Certain Topological Properties

LetFbe a family of continuous functions defined on a compact interval. We give a sufficient condition so thatF∪{0}contains a densec-generated free algebra; in other words,Fis denselyc-strongly algebrable. As an application we obtain densec-strong algebrability of families of nowhere Hölder functions, Bruckner-Garg functions, functions with a dense set of local maxima and local minima, and nowhere monotonous functions differentiable at all but finitely many points. We also study the problem of the existence of large closed algebras withinF∪{0}whereF⊂RXorF⊂CX. We prove that the set of perfectly everywhere surjective functions together with the zero function contains a2c-generated algebra closed in the topology of uniform convergence while it does not contain a nontrivial algebra closed in the pointwise convergence topology. We prove that an infinitely generated algebra which is closed in the pointwise convergence topology needs to contain two valued functions and infinitely valued functions. We give an example of such an algebra; namely, it was shown that there is a subalgebra ofRRwith2cgenerators which is closed in the pointwise topology and, for any functionfin this algebra, there is an open setUsuch thatf-1(U)is a Bernstein set.

MONOTONE LINDELÖF PROPERTY AND LINEARLY ORDERED EXTENSIONS

In this paper, we explore the monotone Lindelöf property of two kinds of linearly ordered extensions of monotonically Lindelöf generalized ordered spaces. In addition, we construct nonseparable monotonically Lindelöf spaces using the Bernstein set, which generalizes Corollary 4 of Levy and Matveev [‘Some more examples of monotonically Lindelöf and not monotonically Lindelöf spaces’, Topology Appl.154 (2007), 2333–2343].

Bernstein sets with algebraic properties

We construct Bernstein sets in ℝ having some additional algebraic properties. In particular, solving a problem of Kraszewski, Rałowski, Szczepaniak and Żeberski, we construct a Bernstein set which is a < c-covering and improve some other results of Rałowski, Szczepaniak and Żeberski on nonmeasurable sets.