Are Perfectly Normal Manifolds Metrisable?

David Gauld ()
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David Gauld: University of Auckland, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 6 in Non-metrisable Manifolds, 2014, pp 87-100 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A big challenge for Set Theory for many years was whether the Continuum Hypothesis CH or its negation $$\lnot $$ ¬ CH followed from the usual axioms of Set Theory, ZFC. In the 1930s Gödel showed that CH was at least consistent with ZFC but then in the 1960s Cohen showed that $$\lnot $$ ¬ CH is also consistent with ZFC: so CH is independent of ZFC. Then in the 1970s the answer to a long-standing question in the topology of manifolds, whether every perfectly normal manifold is metrisable, was found to be independent of ZFC too. In this chapter we exhibit (essentially) the perfectly normal, non-metrisable manifold which Rudin and Zenor constructed using CH. We also present Rudin’s proof that under MA $$+\lnot $$ + ¬ CH every perfectly normal manifold is metrisable.

Keywords: Open Cover; Accumulation Point; Continuum Hypothesis; Usual Topology; Countable Dense Subset (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-257-9_6

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