On $\kappa$-pseudocompactess and uniform homeomorphisms of function spaces

Abstract

A Tychonoff space $X$ is called $\kappa$-pseudocompact if for every continuous mapping $f$ of $X$ into ${\mathbb{R}}^{\kappa }$ the image $f(X)$ is compact. This notion generalizes pseudocompactness and gives a stratification of spaces lying between pseudocompact and compact spaces. It is well known that pseudocompactness of $X$ is determined by the uniform structure of the function space $C_p(X)$ of continuous real-valued functions on $X$ endowed with the pointwise topology. In respect of that A.V. Arhangel'skii asked in [Topology Appl., 89 (1998)] if analogous assertion is true for $\kappa$-pseudocompactness. We provide an affirmative answer to this question.