Influence of ideals in compactifications

Abstract

One point compactification is studied in the light of ideal of subsets of $\mathbb{N}$. $\mathcal{I}$-proper map is introduced and showed that a continuous map can be extended continuously to the one point $\mathcal{I}$-compactification if and only if the map is $\mathcal{I}$-proper. Shrinking condition(C) introduced in this article plays an important role to study various properties of $\mathcal{I}$-proper maps. It is seen that one point $\mathcal{I}$-compactification of a topological space may fail to be Hausdorff but a class $\{\mathcal{I}\}$ of ideals has been identified for which one point $\mathcal{I}$-compactification coincides with the one point compactification if it is metrizable.

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