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Additivity of metrizability and related properties. (English) Zbl 0991.54032
Summary: A topological property $${\mathcal P}$$ is called $$n$$-additive in $$n$$th power (or weakly $$n$$-additive) if a topological space $$X$$ has $${\mathcal P}$$ as soon as $$X^n= \bigcup\{Y_i: i\in n\}$$ where all $$Y_i$$ have $${\mathcal P}$$. If $${\mathcal P}$$ is $$n$$-additive in $$n$$th power for all natural $$n\geq 1$$, we say that $${\mathcal P}$$ is weakly finitely additive.
The main question we deal with in this paper is whether metrizability is weakly finitely additive. It was proved by V. V. Tkachuk [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 341, No. 2, 585-601 (1994; Zbl 0802.54002)] that it is so in the class of regular spaces with Souslin property. Metrizabilty was also proved by Tkachuk [loc. cit.] to be weakly finitely additive in the class of Hausdorff compact spaces. We generalize this last result, showing that metrizability is weakly finitely additive in the class of regular pseudocompact spaces. We also prove that if $$X^n$$ is a regular Lindelöf space then it is metrizable if represented as a union of its $$n$$ metrizable subspaces. We show that there is an example of a Tikhonov nonmetrizable space $$X$$ such that $$X^n$$ is a union of two metrizable subspaces for all $$n\geq 1$$. The method of constructing this example can be used to solve several problems stated by Tkachuk [loc. cit.].

MSC:
 54E35 Metric spaces, metrizability 54A25 Cardinality properties (cardinal functions and inequalities, discrete subsets) 54B05 Subspaces in general topology 54B10 Product spaces in general topology
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