Let (X, d) be a metric space and CL(X) the family of all nonempty closed subsets of X. We provide a new proof of the fact that the coincidence of the Vietoris and Wijsman topologies induced by the metric d forces X to be a compact space. In the literature only a more involved and indirect proof using the proximal topology is known. Here we do not need this intermediate step. Moreover we prove that (X, d) is boundedly compact if and only if the bounded Vietoris and Wijsman topologies on CL(X) coincide....

It is shown that every metrizable consonant space is a Cantor set-selector. Some applications are derived from this fact, also the relationship is discussed in the framework of hyperspaces and Prohorov spaces.

Let $X$ be a metric continuum. Let $F_n\left(X\right)$ denote the hyperspace of nonempty subsets of $X$ with at most $n$ elements. We say that the continuum $X$ has unique hyperspace $F_n\left(X\right)$ provided that the following implication holds: if $Y$ is a continuum and $F_n\left(X\right)$ is homeomorphic to $F_n\left(Y\right)$, then $X$ is homeomorphic to $Y$. In this paper we prove the following results: (1) if $X$ is an indecomposable continuum such that each nondegenerate proper subcontinuum of $X$ is an arc, then $X$ has unique hyperspace $F_2\left(X\right)$, and (2) let $X$ be an arcwise connected...

For a space $Z$, we denote by $ℱ\left(Z\right)$, $𝒦\left(Z\right)$ and ${ℱ}_2\left(Z\right)$ the hyperspaces of non-empty closed, compact, and subsets of cardinality $\le 2$ of $Z$, respectively, with their Vietoris topology. For spaces $X$ and $E$, $C_p(X,E)$ is the space of continuous functions from $X$ to $E$ with its pointwise convergence topology. We analyze in this article when $ℱ\left(Z\right)$, $𝒦\left(Z\right)$ and ${ℱ}_2\left(Z\right)$ have continuous selections for a space $Z$ of the form $C_p(X,E)$, where $X$ is zero-dimensional and $E$ is a strongly zero-dimensional metrizable space. We prove that $C_p(X,E)$ is weakly orderable if and...

Let $X$ be a Hausdorff space and let $\mathscr{H}$ be one of the hyperspaces $CL\left(X\right)$, $𝒦\left(X\right)$, $ℱ\left(X\right)$ or ${ℱ}_n\left(X\right)$ ($n$ a positive integer) with the Vietoris topology. We study the following disconnectedness properties for $\mathscr{H}$: extremal disconnectedness, being a $F^{\text{'}}$-space, $P$-space or weak $P$-space and hereditary disconnectedness. Our main result states: if $X$ is Hausdorff and $F\subset X$ is a closed subset such that (a) both $F$ and $X-F$ are totally disconnected, (b) the quotient $X/F$ is hereditarily disconnected, then $𝒦\left(X\right)$ is hereditarily disconnected. We also...