Selection Principles, Topological Games, Star Covering Properties and Generalizations
selection principles; topological games; Rothberger, Menger and Hurewicz spaces; star covering properties; star selection principles.
This paper addresses the best known selection principles and uses the topological games associated with them to study results that involve the topological spaces that satisfy these principles. For example, we will show that if $ X $ is a Lindelöf space such that $ | X | <$ cov ($ \ mathcal {M} $), then player $ ONE $ has no winning strategy for $ G_1 (\ mathcal {O} _X, \ mathcal {O} _X) $ '', and this proves that `` Every Lindelöf space with a cardinality smaller than cov $ (\ mathcal {M}) $ is a Rothberger space ' '. In this dissertation we will also study $ D $ - spaces, selectively c.c.c. and star selection principles. We present proofs for relevant results of the literatura, such as ``Every $T_1$ Menger space is a $ D-space '', which is demonstrated via games (using another result whose proof is presented in detail in the dissertation, which is " $ X $ is a Menger space if, and only if, $ ONE $ does not have a winning strategy for $ G \ textrm {fin}} (\ mathcal {O} _X, \ mathcal {O} _X $ ''). As $T_1$ Menger spaces are D-spaces, one concludes that a counterexample to the conjecture `` All Lindelöf space and regular is a D-space? '', which remains unanswered since the 1970?s, can not be a Menger space.