Developability and Some New Regularity Axioms

Abstract

In a recent publication H. Brandenburg [5] introduced D-completely regular topological spaces as a natural extension of completely regular (not necessarily T1) spaces: Whereas every closed subset A of a completely regular space X and every x ∈ X\A can be separated by a continuous function into a pseudometrizable space (namely into the unit interval), D-completely regular spaces admit such a separation into developable spaces. In analogy to the work of O. Frink [16], J. M. Aarts and J. de Groot [19] and others ([38], [46]), Brandenburg derived a base characterization of D-completely regular spaces, which gives rise in a natural way to two new regularity conditions, D-regularity and weak regularity.