we consider the space of weakly almost periodic functions on a transformation semigroup (s, x , ?) and show that if x is a locally compact noncompact uniform space, and ? is a separately continuous, separately proper, and equicontinuous action of s on x, then every continuous function on x, vanishing at infinity is weakly almost periodic. we also use a number of diverse examples to show that th...

We define what it means for a function on ω1 to be a collapsing function for λ and show that if there exists a collapsing function for (21), then there is no precipitous ideal on ω1. We show that a collapsing function for ω2 can be added by forcing. We define what it means to be a weakly ω1-Erdös cardinal and show that in L[E], there is a collapsing function for λ iff λ is less than the least w...