Chebyshev subspaces of finite codimension in spaces of continuous functions

A. L. Garkavi in 1967 characterized those compact metric spaces X with the property that the space C ( X ) of real-valued continuous functions possesses Chebyshev subspaces of fine codimension ≥ 2. Here compact Hausdorif spaces with the same property are characterized in terms of certain standard subspaces of the space [0, 1] × {0, 1} equipped with a lexicographic order topology. Garkavi's result for metric spaces is exhibited as a corollary. The proof depends upon a simplification of a characterization by Garkavi of the Chebyshev subspaces of finite codimension in C ( X ). Subject classification ( Amer. Math. Soc. ( MOS ) 1970 ): primary 41 A 65, 46 E 15; secondary 54 G 99.