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    Non meager rectangle
                Suppose $G \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$ is dense $G_\delta$. Must there (in ZFC) exist non meager sets of reals $A, B$ such that $A \times B \subseteq G$?
            
        
       
    
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    Meager subgroups of compact groups
                Suppose we have an infinite compact (Hausdorff) group $G$, and a subgroup $H\leq G$ which is meagre.
Can $H$ always be covered by a countable family of nowhere dense sets $H_n$ such that $H_n^2$ is ...
            
        
       
    
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    Continuity of function mapping $\mathcal{P}(\mathcal{P}(X))$ to $\mathcal{P}(X)$ [closed]
                Given a topological space $Y$, let $\mathcal{P}(Y)$ be the set of all probability measures on $Y$, endowed with the weak* topology.
Let $X$ be a topological space (for convenience, it might be Polish ...
            
        
       
    
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    Is every set of small measure contained in an open set of small measure with null boundary?
                Let $\lambda( \cdot )$ denote Lebesgue measure on $[0,1]$. Let $(A_n)_{n=1}^\infty$ be a decreasing sequence of Borel subsets of $[0,1]$ such that $\bigcap_{n=1}^\infty A_n = \emptyset$. Given $\...
            
        
       
    
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    Borel cross section
                It is known from metric space topology that a closed equivalence relation on a Polish space has either countably many or $\mathfrak{c}$ many equivalence classes.
A short elementary proof is given in ...
            
        
       
    
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    Countable chain condition in $\text{BP}(X)$
                Let $\text{BP}(X)$ denote $\sigma$-algebra of subsets of $X$ with the Baire Property BP and $\text{MGR}(X)$ denote the $\sigma$-ideal of meager sets in $X$.
Assume $X$ is second countable Baire space....
            
        
       
    
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    Question about of comeager set
                If $G\subseteq2^{\mathbb{N}}$ is comeager then exist is a partition $\mathbb{N}=A_0\cup A_1$, $A_0\cap A_1=\emptyset$, and sets $B_i \subseteq A_i$ for $i \in \{0,1\}$, such that for $A \subseteq \...
            
        
       
    
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    Classify spaces that make extension theorems hold
                Recall a Polish space is a completely metrizable separable space.
Say a Polish space $Y$ is a terminal space if for any Polish space $X$ and any closed $C \subseteq X$, one can extend a continuous ...
            
        
       
    
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    Measure on hyperspace of compact subsets
                For a Polish space $X$, let $K(X)$ be the set of compact subsets of $X$.  Given the topology with basis $\{K\in K(X):K\subset U_0, K\cap U_1\neq\emptyset,\ldots,K\cap U_n\neq\emptyset\}$ for open sets ...
            
        
       
    
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    Quotients of standard Borel spaces
                Let $X$ and $Y$ be standard Borel spaces: topological spaces homeomorphic to Borel subsets of complete metric spaces. Given a surjective Borel map $f:X\to Y$, we get an equivalence relation $\sim_f\...
            
        
       
    
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    Is $\ell^\infty$ Polishable?
                Consider $\ell^\infty$ as a subspace of the Polish space $\mathbb{R}^\omega$. It is easy to check that $\ell^\infty$ is not Polish in the subspace topology, as it is countable union of the compact ...
            
        
       
    
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    sets without perfect subset in a non-separable completely metrizable space
                Suppose $X$ is a completely metrizable (but not separable) space. Suppose $D$ is a Borel (actually $F_{\sigma}$) subset of $X$. Is there any logical relation between the following statements? 
[1] $D$...
            
        
       
    
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    Is there a suitably generalized Baire property for topological spaces of arbitrary cardinalities?
                Is there some suitable generalization to the notion of Baire property for topological spaces of arbitrary cardinalities which satisfies the following condition:
The meager sets are sets which are ...
            
        
       
    
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    Comparing two metrics on the space of infinite sequences and relating open and closed sets
                Let $X = \{ 0, 1 \}$ and $X^{\mathbb N_0} = \{ x_0 x_1 x_2 \ldots : x_i \in X \}$ be the space of all infinite sequences, then a metric could be defined on it
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 d(u,v) := \frac{1}{2^r} \mbox{ with } ...
            
        
       
    
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    Continuity on a measure one set versus measure one set of points of continuity
                In short: If $f$ is continuous on a measure one set, is there a function $g=f$ a.e. such that a.e. point is a point of continuity of $g$?
Now more carefully, with some notation: Suppose $(X, d_X)$ ...
            
        
       
    
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    Product of Topological Measure Spaces
                Def.  A Radon measure $\mu$ on a compact Hausdorff space  $X$ is uniformly regular if there is a countable family $\mathcal{A}$ of compact $G_\delta$-subsets of $X$ such that for every open set $U\...
            
        
       
    
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    Partition $\Bbb{R}$ into a family of sets each one homeomorphic to the Cantor set
                It is known that there is no (nontrivial) partition of $\Bbb{R}$ into a countable number of closed set. But is there a partition of $\Bbb{R}$ into sets, each one homeomorphic to the cantor ternary set?...
            
        
       
    
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    Different Metrics for Baire Space and their induced Topologies
                The Baire-Space is the set of all infinite sequences of integers, i.e.
$$
  \mathcal N = \omega^{\omega}.
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On this space usually the following metric is given
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  d(\alpha, \beta) = \left\{ \begin{...
            
        
       
    
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    Generalizations of the Tietze extension theorem (and Lusin's theorem)
                I am reasking a year-old math.stackexchange.com question asked by someone else.
(For my needs every space $X$ and $Y$ will be Polish---that is a completely separably metrizable space.)
The Tietze ...
            
        
       
    
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    Question about product topology
                Suppose $S\subset\mathbb{R}$ is dense without interior point, and for every open interval $I,J\subset\mathbb{R}$, $I\cap S$ is homeomorphic to $J\cap S$.
Is $S\times S$ homeomorphic to $S$?
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    Restrictions of null/meager ideal
                Let I denote the null (resp. meager) ideal on reals. Is it consistent that for any pair of non null (resp. meager) sets A and B, there is a null (resp. meager) preserving bijection between A and B? In ...
            
        
       
    
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    Connectedness of the complement of small subsets (extended question)
                The following questions occurred to me while browsing this site and looking at Exercise 20 here. 
Question 1. Let $n>1$. Does there exist a countable dense subset $A\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ for which ...
            
        
       
    
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    Descriptive set theory on $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}$
                The short version of my question is, What is a good source for learning about descriptive set theory on the space $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}$, under the product topology coming from the discrete topology ...
            
        
       
    
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    Is the generalized Baire space complete?
                I want to see whether the fact that the Baire space $\omega^\omega$ is a complete (metrizable) space generalizes  to $\kappa^\kappa$ being a complete (topological) space.  I think this is an easy ...
            
        
       
    
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    The reals as continuous image of the irrationals
                In the Wikipedia article about descriptive set theory I read that $\mathbb{R}$ (with its usual topology) is a Polish space, and that every Polish space 
1) can be obtained as a continuous image of ...
            
        
       
    
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    Is every $\sigma$-algebra of sets *abstractly* the Borel algebra of a topology on perhaps some other set?
                Is every sigma-algebra the Borel algebra of a topology?
inspires the present question which asks for less.
Question: Given a $\sigma$-algebra $\mathcal A$ on a set $X$, does there exist a topology $\...
            
        
       
    
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    A question about Q?
                Let A=$\{a_n : n\in \omega \}\subset 2^{\omega\times\omega}$ be nonempty countable without isolated points (i.e. homeomorphic to $\mathbb{Q}$), and satisfy $ \forall n\in \omega \exists^\infty m|\{k:...
            
        
       
    
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    Closure properties of familes of $G_\delta$ sets.
                Given a family of sets $G\subset P(X)$, can one characterize by "closure properties" alone whether or not $G$ arises as the family of all $G_\delta$ for some  topology on $X$? some Polish space ...
            
        
       
    
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    Is every sigma-algebra the Borel algebra of a topology?
                This question arises from the excellent question posed on math.SE
by Salvo Tringali, namely, Correspondence
between Borel algebras and topology.
Since the question was not answered there after some ...
            
        
       
    
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    Action on a compact group
                If $G$ is an infinite compact group, how many orbits can $G$ have under the group action of its continuous automorphisms ?
            
        
       
    
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    Question about 0-dimensional Polish spaces
                Hello everybody,
I'm stuck with proving (or disproving) the following statement.
Statement:
For every $0$-dimensional Polish space $(X,\mathcal{T}\ )$, and a countable basis of clopen sets $\mathcal{...
            
        
       
    
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    Continuously selecting elements from unordered pairs
                The symmetric square of a topological space $X$ is obtained from the usual square $X^2$ by identifying pairs of symmetric points $(x_1,x_2)$ and $(x_2,x_1)$. Thus, elements of the symmetric square can ...
            
        
       
    
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    When can the one-one continuous image of a perfect set fail to be perfect?
                Let $\mathfrak{M}$ and $\mathfrak{N}$ be perfect Polish spaces, $P$ a nonempty perfect subset of $\mathfrak{M}$, and $f: \mathfrak{M} \rightarrow \mathfrak{N}$ a continuous surjection that's injective ...
            
        
       
    
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    For METRIZABLE spaces, do the Banach classes and Baire classes coincide?
                In this paper: 'Borel structures for Function spaces' by Robert Aumann, 
http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ijm/1255631584
Aumann claims that when X and Y are metric spaces (among other things), the ...
            
        
       
    
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    A compactness property for Borel sets
                Is the following generalised compactness property of Borel sets in a Polish space consistent with ZFC?
($*$)  Let $\mathcal{B}$ be a family of $\aleph_1$-many Borel sets. If $\bigcap \mathcal{B} = \...
            
        
       
    
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    Wanted: chain of nowhere dense subsets of the real line whose union is nonmeagre, or even contains intervals
                Let $X$ be a topological space. When I call a set nowhere dense, meagre or similar without qualification, I mean that it has this property as a subset of $X$. Call a subset of $X$ weager (for weakly ...