Countable tightness may be destroyed by countably closed forcing. We
characterize the indestructibility of countable tightness under countably
closed forcing by combinatorial statements similar to the ones Tall used to
characterize indestructibility of the Lindelof property under countably closed
forcing. We consider the behavior of countable tightness in generic extensions
obtained by adding Cohen reals. We show that HFD's are indestructibly countably
tight.
Arhangel'skii proved that if a first countable Hausdorff space is Lindel\"of,
then its cardinality is at most $2^{\aleph_0}$. Such a clean upper bound for
Lindel\"of spaces in the larger class of spaces whose points are ${\sf
G}_{\delta}$ has been more elusive. In this paper we continue the agenda
started in F.D. Tall, On the cardinality of Lindel\"of spaces with points
$G_{\delta}$, Topology and its Applications 63 (1995), 21 - 38, of considering
the cardinality problem for spaces satisfying stronger versions of the
Lindel\"of property.
Arhangel'skii proved that if a first countable Hausdorff space is Lindel\"of,
then its cardinality is at most $2^{\aleph_0}$. Such a clean upper bound for
Lindel\"of spaces in the larger class of spaces whose points are ${\sf
G}_{\delta}$ has been more elusive. In this paper we continue the agenda
started in F.D. Tall, On the cardinality of Lindel\"of spaces with points
$G_{\delta}$, Topology and its Applications 63 (1995), 21 - 38, of considering
the cardinality problem for spaces satisfying stronger versions of the
Lindel\"of property.