Weakly Boolean maximal chains of homeomorphic topologies

Abstract

If $\lambda <\kappa$ are infinite cardinals, a linear order $L$ is isomorphic to a maximal chain in $[\kappa ]^{\kappa |\kappa }$ (resp. $[\kappa ]^{\lambda |\kappa }$; $[\kappa ]^{\kappa |\lambda }$) iff $L$ is weakly Boolean, the weight of all initial segments of $L$ is equal to $\kappa$ (resp. $\lambda$, $\lambda ^+$) and the weight of all final segments of $L$ is equal to $\kappa$ (resp. $\lambda ^+$, $\lambda $). We also provide an application of this result in topology.