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The Wadge hierarchy was originally defined and studied only in the Baire space (and some other zero-dimensional spaces). Here we extend the Wadge hierarchy of Borel sets to arbitrary topological spaces by providing a set-theoretic definition of all its levels. We show that our extension behaves well in second countable spaces and especially in quasi-Polish spaces. In particular, all levels are preserved by continuous open surjections between second countable spaces which implies e.g., several Hausdorff-Kuratowski (HK)-type theorems in quasi-Polish spaces. In fact, many results hold not only for the Wadge hierarchy of sets but also for its extension to Borel functions from a space to a countable better quasiorder Q.
Translated title of the contributionQ-иерархия Вэджа в квази-польских пространствах
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)732-757
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of Symbolic Logic
Volume87
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Jun 2022

    Research areas

  • better quasiorder, Borel hierarchy, fine hierarchy, h-quasiorder, iterated labeled tree, Q-partition, Wadge hierarchy

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