Publisher's Synopsis
These proceedings grew out of the sixth Summer Conference on General Topolgy and Applications, held at Long Island University, which drew 116 mathematicians from six continents and featured the first visit to the United States in 20 years of the renowned Soviet topologist A.V. Arhangel'skii. The power and diversity of these mathematicians is reflected in articles on subjects ranging from topological groups, uniform structures and function spaces to lattices, frames, compactifications, spatial decompositions, metrisation, combinational set theory and cleavability.;Four invited speakers contributed to this volume: Arhangel'skii discusses cleavability, Banaschewski presents compactifications and local connectedness in terms of frames, Comfort discusses the number of compatible topologies of several types on a given Abelian or free group and Gruenhage shows a way to decompose three-dimensional space into "2-omega" many disjoint arcs.
