Chain Conditions in Topology

by W. W. Comfort, S. Negrepontis, W.W. Comfort

Book Overview

A chain condition is a property, typically involving considerations of cardinality, of the family of open subsets of a topological space. (Sample questions: (a) How large a fmily of pairwise disjoint open sets does the space admit? (b) From an uncountable family of open sets, can one always extract an uncountable subfamily with the finite intersection property. This monograph, which is partly fresh research and partly expository (in the sense that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521090628
• ISBN13: 9780521090629
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"