Article
Keywords:
Kunen point; $\beta$-normality; Čech--Stone compactification; metrizable crowded space
Summary:
We show that every point of the remainder $\beta X\setminus X$ of the Čech--Stone compactification $\beta X$ of any metrizable crowded space $X$ is a ``$\lambda$-Kunen" point for some regular cardinal $\lambda$. As a consequence we show that $\beta X \setminus \{p\}$ is not $\beta$-normal in the sense of result published in the paper On $\alpha$-normal and $\beta$-normal spaces (2021) by A. V. Arhangel'skii and L. Ludwig and, it explicitly indicate closed subsets of $\beta X \setminus \{p\}$ that cannot be ``$\beta$-separated".
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