Suppose a metrizable separable space Y is sigma hereditarily disconnected, i.e., it is a countable union of hereditarily disconnected subspaces. We prove that the countable power of any subspace X ⊂ Y is not universal for the class ₂ of absolute -sets; moreover, if Y is an absolute -set, then contains no closed topological copy of the Nagata space = W(I,ℙ); if Y is an absolute -set, then contains no closed copy of the Smirnov space σ = W(I,0). On the other hand, the countable power of any absolute retract of the first Baire category contains a closed topological copy of each σ-compact space having a strongly countable-dimensional completion. We also prove that for a Polish space X and a subspace Y ⊂ X admitting an embedding into a σ-compact sigma hereditarily disconnected space Z the weak product is not universal for the class ℳ ₃ of absolute -sets; moreover, if the space Z is compact then W(X,Y) is not universal for the class ℳ ₂ of absolute -sets.
@article{bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-fm167-2-1, author = {Taras Banakh and Robert Cauty}, title = {On universality of countable and weak products of sigma hereditarily disconnected spaces}, journal = {Fundamenta Mathematicae}, volume = {167}, year = {2001}, pages = {97-109}, zbl = {0973.54017}, language = {en}, url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-fm167-2-1} }
Taras Banakh; Robert Cauty. On universality of countable and weak products of sigma hereditarily disconnected spaces. Fundamenta Mathematicae, Tome 167 (2001) pp. 97-109. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-fm167-2-1/