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"Compactness length" of Baire space

Intuitively, my question is: how many times do we have to mod out by an closed equivalence relation with all classes compact in order to collapse Baire space $\omega^\omega$ to a singleton? In more ...
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Which functions have all the common $\forall\exists$-properties of continuous functions?

This is an attempt at partial progress towards this question. Meanwhile, Sam Sanders pointed out that my original term was already in use, as were a couple other back-up terms, so ... oh well. For a ...
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Determinacy coincidence at $\omega_1$: is CH needed?

This is a follow-up to the last part of an old MSE answer of mine. Briefly, an analogue at $\omega_1$ of Steel's equivalence between clopen and open determinacy can be proved assuming $\mathsf{CH}$, ...
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Can totally inhomogeneous sets of reals coexist with determinacy?

A special case of a theorem of Brian Scott (from On the existence of totally inhomogeneous spaces) is that there is a size-continuum set $S\subset\mathbb{R}$ such that if $x,y\in S$ are distinct then $...
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Intersection of (relativized/preimage) measure 0 with every hyperarithmetic perfect set

Given a perfect tree $T$ on $2^{<\omega}$ viewed as a function from $2^{<\omega}$ to $2^{<\omega}$ define the measure of a subset of $[T]$ to be the measure of it's preimage under the usual ...
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Consistency of the Hurewicz dichotomy property

Just to fix the environment, let's work in the Baire space $\omega^\omega$, the space of infinite sequences of natural numbers with the product of the discrete topology over $\omega$. We say that a ...
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When does an "$\mathbb{R}$-generated" space have a short description?

The following is a more focused version of the original question; see the edit history if interested. In the original version of the question, five other variants of the "simplicity" ...
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Is there a Hausdorff space whose "covering problem" has intermediate complexity?

For a "reasonable" pointclass ${\bf \Gamma}$, say that a second-countable space $(X,\tau)$ is ${\bf \Gamma}$-describable iff for some (equivalently, every) enumerated subbase $B=(B_i)_{i\in\...
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Undetermined Banach-Mazur games in ZF?

This question was previously asked and bountied on MSE, with no response. This MO question is related, but is also unanswered and the comments do not appear to address this question. Given a ...
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Detecting comprehension topologically

This question basically follows this earlier question of mine but shifting from standard systems of nonstandard models of $PA$ to $\omega$-models of $RCA_0$. For $X$ a Turing ideal we get the map $c_X$...
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Source on smooth equivalence relations under continuous reducibility?

This question was asked and bountied at MSE, but received no answer. In the context of Borel reducibility, smooth equivalence relations (see the introduction of this paper) are rather boring since ...
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How much can complexities of bases of a "simple" space vary?

Given a countable subbase of a topology, we can consider its complexity in terms of the difficulty of determining whether one family of basic open sets covers another basic open set. My question is ...
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Can we inductively define Wadge-well-foundedness?

For a topological space $X$ (which I'll identify with its underlying set of points), we define the Wadge preorder $Wadge(X)$: elements of the preorder are subsets of $X$, and the ordering is given by $...
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Topologically Ordered Families of Disjoint Cantor Sets in $I$?

Suppose that we have an uncountable collection $C_\alpha$ of disjoint Cantor Sets contained in the closed unit interval $I$. Suppose we have ordered the indices $\alpha \in [0,1]$ as well. Then is ...
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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 ...