Power homogeneous compacta and variations on tightness

Abstract

The weak tightness $wt(X)$, introduced in [6], has the property $wt(X)\leq t(X)$. It was shown in [4] that if $X$ is a homogeneous compactum then $|X|\leq 2^{wt(X)\pi\chi(X)}$. We introduce the almost tightness $at(X)$ with the property $wt(X)\leq at(X)\leq t(X)$ and show that if $X$ is a power homogeneous compactum then $|X|\leq 2^{at(X)\pi\chi(X)}$. This improves the result of \arhangelskii, van Mill, and Ridderbos in [2] that $|X|\leq 2^{t(X)}$ for a power homogeneous compactum $X$ and gives a partial answer to a question in [4]. In addition, if $X$ is a homogeneous Hausdorff space we show that $|X|\leq 2^{pw_cL(X)wt(X)\pi\chi(X)pct(X)}$, improving a result in [3]. It also extends the result in [4] into the Hausdorff setting. The cardinal invariant $pwL_c(X)$, introduced in [5] by Bella and Spadaro, satisfies $pwL_c(X)\leq L(X)$ and $pwL_c(X)\leq c(X)$. We also show the weight $w(X)$ of a homogeneous space $X$ is bounded in various contexts using $wt(X)$. One such result is that if $X$ is homogeneous and regular then $w(X)\leq 2^{L(X)wt(X)pct(X)}$. This generalizes a result in [4] that if $X$ is a homogeneous compactum then $w(X)\leq 2^{wt(X)}$.