Homogeneous Subspaces of Products of Extremally Disconnected Spaces

Homogeneous countably compact spaces $X$ and $Y$ whose product $X\times Y$ is not pseudocompact are constructed. It is proved that all compact subsets of homogeneous subspaces of the third power of an extremally disconnected space are finite. Moreover, under CH, all compact subsets of homogeneous subspaces of any finite power of an extremally disconnected space are finite and all compact subsets of homogeneous subspaces of the countable power of an extremally disconnected space are metrizable. It is also proved that all compact homogeneous subspaces of finite powers of an extremally disconnected space are finite, which strengthens Frol\'{\i}k's theorem

Cardinal invariants for C-cross topologies

C-cross topologies are introduced. Modifcations of the Kuratowski-Ulam Theorem are considered. Cardinal invariants add, cof, cov and non with respect to meager or nowhere dense subsets are compared. Remarks on invariants cof(nwdY) are mentioned for dense subspaces Y of X.Comment: 11 page

A general approach to Read's type constructions of operators without non-trivial invariant closed subspaces

We present a general method for constructing operators without non-trivial invariant closed subsets on a large class of non-reflexive Banach spaces. In particular, our approach unifies and generalizes several constructions due to Read of operators without non-trivial invariant subspaces on the spaces $\ell_{1}$, $c_{0}$ or $\oplus_{\ell_{2}}J$, and without non-trivial invariant subsets on $\ell_{1}$. We also investigate how far our methods can be extended to the Hilbertian setting, and construct an operator on a quasireflexive dual Banach space which has no non-trivial $w^{*}$-closed invariant subspace.Comment: Minor modification