$k$-spaces, sequential spaces and related topics in the absence of the axiom of choice

Abstract

In the absence of the axiom of choice, new results concerning sequential, Fréchet-Urysohn, $k$-spaces, very $k$-spaces, Loeb and Cantor completely metrizable spaces are shown. New choice principles are introduced. Among many other theorems, it is proved in $\mathbf{ZF}$ that every Loeb, $T_3$-space having a base expressible as a countable union of finite sets is a metrizable second-countable space whose every $F_{\sigma }$-subspace is separable; moreover, every $G_{\delta }$-subspace of a second-countable, Cantor completely metrizable space is Cantor completely metrizable, Loeb and separable. It is also noticed that Arkhangel'skii's statement that every very $k$-space is Fréchet-Urysohn is unprovable in $\mathbf{ZF}$ but it holds in $\mathbf{ZF}$ that every first-countable, regular very $k$-space whose family of all non-empty compact sets has a choice function is Fréchet-Urysohn. That every second-countable metrizable space is a very $k$-space is equivalent to the axiom of countable choice for $\mathbb{R}$.