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We examine a basis problem for uncountable regular first countable spaces using the Proper Forcing Axiom. We introduce a notion of inner and outer topologies and show that they come quite close to characterizing the correctness of the current conjecture about this basis problem.
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The research of the second author was partially supported by grants from NSERC (455916) and CNRS (UMR7586).
Peng was partially supported by NSFC No. 11901562 and a program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Peng, Y., Todorcevic, S. Analysis of a topological basis problem. Acta Math. Hungar. 167, 419–475 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-022-01253-y
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