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    Tychonoff Expansions with Prescribed Resolvability Properties

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    The recent literature offers examples, specific and hand-crafted, of Tychonoff spaces (in ZFC) which respond negatively to these questions, due respectively to Ceder and Pearson (1967) and to Comfort and Garc\'ia-Ferreira (2001): (1) Is every ω\omega-resolvable space maximally resolvable? (2) Is every maximally resolvable space extraresolvable? Now using the method of KID{\mathcal{KID}} expansion, the authors show that {\it every} suitably restricted Tychonoff topological space (X,\sT) admits a larger Tychonoff topology (that is, an "expansion") witnessing such failure. Specifically the authors show in ZFC that if (X,\sT) is a maximally resolvable Tychonoff space with S(X,\sT)\leq\Delta(X,\sT)=\kappa, then (X,\sT) has Tychonoff expansions \sU=\sU_i (1≤i≤51\leq i\leq5), with \Delta(X,\sU_i)=\Delta(X,\sT) and S(X,\sU_i)\leq\Delta(X,\sU_i), such that (X,\sU_i) is: (i=1i=1) ω\omega-resolvable but not maximally resolvable; (i=2i=2) [if κ′\kappa' is regular, with S(X,\sT)\leq\kappa'\leq\kappa] τ\tau-resolvable for all τ<κ′\tau<\kappa', but not κ′\kappa'-resolvable; (i=3i=3) maximally resolvable, but not extraresolvable; (i=4i=4) extraresolvable, but not maximally resolvable; (i=5i=5) maximally resolvable and extraresolvable, but not strongly extraresolvable.Comment: 25 pages, 0 figure
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