EN
CONTENTS
0. Conventions................................................................................................................................... 5
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 5
CHAPTER I. TOOLS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SPECIAL POINTS............................... 10
2. Tools........................................................................................................................................................ 10
3. Extension of open sets......................................................................................................................... 10
4. Construction of special points in X*................................................................................................... 12
CHAPTER II. EFFECTIVE PROOFS USING REMOTE POINTS................................................. 16
5. Remote points and extremal disconnectedness at points........................................................... 16
6. Remote points and nonhomogeneity................................................................................................ 17
7.Čech-Stone compactifications and products.................................................................................... 19
8. When "extremally disconnected at" implies remote....................................................................... 22
9. Far points, remote points, and nonhomogeneity............................................................................ 24
CHAPTER III. OTHER APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE POINTS................................................... 25
10. Two examples on extremal disconnectedness............................................................................ 25
11. A partition of R*.................................................................................................................................... 26
12. Extremal disconnectedness and C*-embedding......................................................................... 27
13. Connected compactifications........................................................................................................... 28
CHAPTER IV. PROPERTIES OF REMOTE POINTS.................................................................... 30
14: The structure of remote points.......................................................................................................... 30
15. Nonhomogeneity of spaces of special points............................................................................... 31
16. Special points and Baire spaces..................................................................................................... 32
17. Pseudocompact spaces between X and βX.................................................................................. 32
CHAPTER V. MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS................................................................................ 36
18. Zero-dimensional spaces................................................................................................................. 36
19. Q, Q*, Q**, Q***,................................................................................................................................... 37
20. Retractions from βX onto X*.............................................................................................................. 38
21. Products of remainders..................................................................................................................... 39
22. Questions............................................................................................................................................. 40
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................... 42
INDEX................................................................................................................................................... 44