Countable Dense Homogeneity in Powers of Zero-dimensional Definable Spaces
AbstractWe show that for a coanalytic subspace X of 2ω, the countable dense homogeneity of Xω is equivalent to X being Polish. This strengthens a result of Hruˇs´ak and Zamora Avilés. Then, inspired by results of Hernández-Guti´errez, Hruˇs´ak, and van Mill, using a technique of Medvedev, we construct a non-Polish subspace X of 2ω such that Xω is countable dense homogeneous. This gives the ûrst ZFC answer to a question of Hruˇs´ak and Zamora Avil´es. Furthermore, since our example is consistently analytic, the equivalence result mentioned above is sharp. Our results also answer a question of Medini and Milovich. Finally, we show that if every countable subset of a zero-dimensional separable metrizable space X is included in a Polish subspace of X, then Xω is countable dense homogeneous.