Disconnection in the Alexandroff duplicate

<p>It was demonstrated in [2] that the Alexandroff duplicate of the Čech-Stone compactification of the naturals is not extremally disconnected. The question was raised as to whether the Alexandroff duplicate of a non-discrete extremally disconnected space can ever be extremally disconnected. We answer this question in the affirmative; an example of van Douwen is significant. In a slightly different direction we also characterize when the Alexandroff duplicate of a space is a P-space as well as when it is an almost P-space.</p>

Co-Absolutes with Homeomorphic Dense Subspaces

Recall that the absolute ∈(X) of a regular space X is the unique (up to a homeomorphism) extremally disconnected space whose image is X under a perfect irreducible map. X and Y are co-absolute whenever ∈(X) and ∈(Y) are homeomorphic. Completely regular spaces X and Y are weakly co-absolute whenever βX and βY are co-absolute. For a survey of this area we suggest [6] and [8].In this paper we proveTHEOREM 1. Suppose, for i ∈ {0, 1};, X(i) is a compact connected linearly ordered space. Then X(0) and X(l) are co-absolute if, and only if, X(0) and X(l) have homeomorphic dense sets.Making use of Theorem 1 and a result from [7] we give Theorem 2, a cardinal generalization ofCOROLLARY 1. Suppose for each i ∈ {0, 1};, X(i) is a Čech-complete space with a Gδ-diagonal.