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.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftFundamenta Mathematicae
Vol/bind257
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)115-140
ISSN0016-2736
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
I would like to thank my advisor, Asger Törnquist, for many valuable discussions. I would also like to thank Joshua Hunt and Alexander S. Kechris for several useful comments on earlier drafts. Finally, I would also like to thank the referees for helping me improve the paper and, in particular, for suggesting the name presentation rank. The author was partially supported by Lars Hesselholt’s Niels Bohr Professorship.

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