Caliber (mathematics)

In mathematics, the caliber or calibre of a topological space X is a cardinal κ such that for every set of κ nonempty open subsets of X there is some point of X contained in κ of these subsets. This concept was introduced by Shanin (1948). There is a similar concept for posets. A pre-caliber of a poset P is a cardinal κ such that for any collection of elements of P indexed by κ, there is a subcollection of cardinality κ that is centered. Here a subset of a poset is called centered if for any finite subset there is an element of the poset less than or equal to all of them.

## References

* Kunen, Kenneth (2011), Set theory, Studies in Logic, 34, London: College Publications, ISBN 978-1-84890-050-9
* Shanin, N. A. (1948), "On the product of topological spaces", Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklov. 24

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