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Does hereditarily separable imply hereditarily sequentially separable for C_p(X)?

Determine whether the function space C_p(X), consisting of all real-valued continuous functions on a Tychonoff space X endowed with the topology of pointwise convergence, is hereditarily sequentially separable under the assumption that C_p(X) is hereditarily separable.

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Background

The paper studies relationships between sequential separability, σ-separability, F-separability, and their hereditary variants in function spaces C_p(X). Several equivalences are established under additional structural conditions on X (e.g., γ-space) and on powers of X, but the general implication from hereditary separability to hereditary sequential separability is not resolved.

Hereditarily separable means every subspace of C_p(X) is separable; hereditarily sequentially separable requires every subspace to be sequentially separable. The question asks whether the stronger sequential property follows from hereditary separability in the C_p setting.

References

Suppose that $C_p(X)$ is a hereditarily separable space. Is it true that $C_p(X)$ is hereditarily sequentially separable?

Velichko's notions close to sequentially separability and their hereditary variants in $C_p$-theory (2406.03014 - Osipov, 5 Jun 2024) in Section 4 (Open questions), Question 4.1