On the class of NY compact spaces of finitely supported elements and related classes

Abstract

We prove that a compact space $K$ embeds into a $σ$-product of compact metrizable spaces ($σ$-product of intervals) if and only if $K$ is (strongly countable-dimensional) hereditarily metalindelöf and every subspace of $K$ has a nonempty relative open second-countable subset. This provides novel characterizations of $ω$-Corson and $NY$ compact spaces. We give an example of a uniform Eberlein compact space that does not embed into a product of compact metric spaces in such a way that the $σ$-product is dense in the image. In particular, this answers a question of Kubiś and Leiderman. We also show that for a compact space $K$ the property of being $NY$ compact is determined by the topological structure of the space $C_p(K)$ of continuous real-valued functions of $K$ equipped with the pointwise convergence topology. This refines a recent result of Zakrzewski.