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Gδ-singleton criterion for hereditary realcompactness in ZF

Establish whether, in ZF, every realcompact space whose every singleton is a Gδ subset is hereditarily realcompact; equivalently, determine if the ZFC result that a realcompact space with all singletons Gδ is hereditarily realcompact remains provable without any form of the axiom of choice.

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Background

Gillman–Jerison’s Corollary 8.15 (in ZFC) states that a realcompact space in which every singleton is Gδ is hereditarily realcompact. The authors do not know if this holds in ZF. They provide partial ZF results: if every singleton is a zero-set then hereditary realcompactness follows (ZF), and if every singleton is Gδ then hereditary realcompactness follows under CMC. The open question is whether the Gδ-singleton condition alone suffices in ZF.

References

Let make comments on Corollary 8.15 in [6] asserting that if X is a realcompact space whose every singleton is of type Gs, then X is hereditarily realcompact. We do not know if this corollary is provable in ZF; however, we can obtain the following modifications of it in ZF.

Characterizations of $\mathbb{N}$-compactness and realcompactness via ultrafilters in the absence of the axiom of choice (2408.01461 - Olfati et al., 27 Jul 2024) in Section 6, paragraph preceding Proposition 6.20