The Choquet Games | Department of Mathematics

The Choquet Games

Event Information
Event Location: 
GAB 461
Event Date: 
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 3:30pm

We will describe Choquet and strong Choquet spaces and provide proofs of some of their basic properties as well as their relation to Baire spaces and completeness. This will give us a characterization of when metric spaces are complete, provide an alternative proof of Hausdorff and Sierpinski's theorems on continuous open images of complete metric spaces, and result in a characterization of Polish spaces similar to the Urysohn Metrization Theorem that is of interest in descriptive set theory. This talk will assume only a standard course in topology and no background in logic should be needed.