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Let X = (X,d) be a metric space and let the product space X × ℝ be endowed with the metric ϱ ((x,t),(x’,t’)) = maxd(x,x’), |t - t’|. We denote by $USC{C}_B\left(X\right)$ the space of bounded upper semicontinuous multi-valued functions φ : X → ℝ such that each φ(x) is a closed interval. We identify $\phi \in USC{C}_B\left(X\right)$ with its graph which is a closed subset of X × ℝ. The space $USC{C}_B\left(X\right)$ admits the Hausdorff metric induced by ϱ. It is proved that if X = (X,d) is uniformly locally connected, non-compact and complete, then $USC{C}_B\left(X\right)$ is homeomorphic to a...

Let $L\left(X\right)$ be the space of all lower semi-continuous extended real-valued functions on a Hausdorff space $X$, where, by identifying each $f$ with the epi-graph $epi\left(f\right)$, $L\left(X\right)$ is regarded the subspace of the space ${Cld}_F^{*}(X\times ℝ)$ of all closed sets in $X\times ℝ$ with the Fell topology. Let $$LSC\left(X\right)=\{f\in L\left(X\right)\mid f\left(X\right)\cap ℝ\ne \varnothing ,f\left(X\right)\subset (-\infty ,\infty ]\}\text{and}{LSC}_B\left(X\right)=\{f\in L\left(X\right)\mid f\left(X\right)\text{is}\text{a}\text{bounded}\text{subset}\text{of}ℝ\}.$$ We show that $L\left(X\right)$ is homeomorphic to the Hilbert cube $Q={[-1,1]}^{\mathbb{N}}$ if and only if $X$ is second countable, locally compact and infinite. In this case, it is proved that $(L\left(X\right),LSC\left(X\right),{LSC}_B\left(X\right))$ is homeomorphic to $(ConeQ,Q\times (0,1),\Sigma \times (0,1\left)\right)$ (resp. $(Q,s,\Sigma )$) if $X$ is compact (resp. $X$ is non-compact), where $ConeQ=(Q\times 𝐈)/(Q\times \{1\left\}\right)$ is the cone over...