Presentation ranks on Polish spaces

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  • Vibeke Quorning

For any Polish space X it is well-known that the Cantor–Bendixson rank provides a co-analytic rank on F0(X) if and only if X is σ-compact. In the case of ωω one may recover a co-analytic rank on F0ω) by considering the Cantor–Bendixson rank of the induced trees instead. In this paper, we generalize this idea to arbitrary Polish spaces and thereby construct a family of co-analytic ranks on Fℵ0(X) for any Polish space X. We study the behaviour of this family and compare the ranks to the Cantor–Bendixson rank. The main results are characterizations of the compact and σ-compact Polish spaces in terms of this behaviour.

Original languageEnglish
JournalFundamenta Mathematicae
Volume257
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)115-140
ISSN0016-2736
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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    Research areas

  • Cantor–Bendixson derivative, Cantor–Bendixson rank, co-analytic rank, co-analytic set, Effros Borel space

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