A characterization of functions in the first Baire class in terms of their sets of discontinuity is given. More precisely, a function $f:ℝ\to ℝ$ is of the first Baire class if and only if for each $ϵ>0$ there is a sequence of closed sets ${\left\{C_n\right\}}_{n=1}^{\infty }$ such that $D_f={\bigcup }_{n=1}^{\infty }{C}_n$ and ${\omega }_f\left(C_n\right)<ϵ$ for each $n$ where $${\omega }_f\left(C_n\right)=sup\left\{\right|f\left(x\right)-f\left(y\right)|:x,y\in C_n\}$$ and $D_f$ denotes the set of points of discontinuity of $f$. The proof of the main theorem is based on a recent $ϵ$-$\delta$ characterization of Baire class one functions as well as on a well-known theorem due to Lebesgue. Some direct applications...

We prove that each linearly continuous function $f$ on ${ℝ}^n$ (i.e., each function continuous on all lines) belongs to the first Baire class, which answers a problem formulated by K. C. Ciesielski and D. Miller (2016). The same result holds also for $f$ on an arbitrary Banach space $X$, if $f$ has moreover the Baire property. We also prove (extending a known finite-dimensional result) that such $f$ on a separable $X$ is continuous at all points outside a first category set which is also null in any usual...

Let $X$ be a complex $L_1$-predual, non-separable in general. We investigate extendability of complex-valued bounded homogeneous Baire-$\alpha$ functions on the set $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ of the extreme points of the dual unit ball $B_{X^{*}}$ to the whole unit ball $B_{X^{*}}$. As a corollary we show that, given $\alpha \in [1,{\omega }_1)$, the intrinsic $\alpha$-th Baire class of $X$ can be identified with the space of bounded homogeneous Baire-$\alpha$ functions on the set $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ when $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ satisfies certain topological assumptions. The paper is intended to be a complex counterpart to...

We study the generalized Cantor space ${}^{\kappa }2$ and the generalized Baire space ${}^{\kappa }\kappa$ as analogues of the classical Cantor and Baire spaces. We equip ${}^{\kappa }\kappa$ with the topology where a basic neighborhood of a point η is the set ν: (∀j < i)(ν(j) = η(j)), where i < κ. We define the concept of a strong measure zero set of ${}^{\kappa }2$. We prove for successor $\kappa ={\kappa }^{<\kappa }$ that the ideal of strong measure zero sets of ${}^{\kappa }2$ is ${}_{\kappa }$-additive, where ${}_{\kappa }$ is the size of the smallest unbounded family in ${}^{\kappa }\kappa$, and that the generalized Borel...

We prove the result on Baire classification of mappings $f:X\times Y\to Z$ which are continuous with respect to the first variable and belongs to a Baire class with respect to the second one, where $X$ is a $PP$-space, $Y$ is a topological space and $Z$ is a strongly $\sigma$-metrizable space with additional properties. We show that for any topological space $X$, special equiconnected space $Z$ and a mapping $g:X\to Z$ of the $(n-1)$-th Baire class there exists a strongly separately continuous mapping $f:X^n\to Z$ with the diagonal $g$. For wide classes...

Jayne and Rogers proved that every function from an analytic space into a separable metrizable space is decomposable into countably many continuous functions with closed domains if and only if the preimage of each $F_{\sigma }$ set under that function is again $F_{\sigma }$. Many researchers conjectured that the Jayne-Rogers theorem can be generalized to all finite levels of Borel functions. In this paper, by using the Shore-Slaman join theorem on the Turing degrees, we show the following variant of the Jayne-Rogers...

Necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of lower cut sets are given for the insertion of a Baire-$.5$ function between two comparable real-valued functions on the topological spaces that $F_{\sigma }$-kernel of sets are $F_{\sigma }$-sets.

We examine the boundary behaviour of the generic power series $f$ with coefficients chosen from a fixed bounded set $\Lambda$ in the sense of Baire category. Notably, we prove that for any open subset $U$ of the unit disk $D$ with a nonreal boundary point on the unit circle, $f\left(U\right)$ is a dense set of $ℂ$. As it is demonstrated, this conclusion does not necessarily hold for arbitrary open sets accumulating to the unit circle. To complement these results, a characterization of coefficient sets having this property...

For a multidimensional control problem ${\left(P\right)}_K$ involving controls $u\in L_{\infty }$, we construct a dual problem ${\left(D\right)}_K$ in which the variables ν to be paired with u are taken from the measure space rca (Ω,) instead of $\left(L_{\infty }\right)*$. For this purpose, we add to ${\left(P\right)}_K$ a Baire class restriction for the representatives of the controls u. As main results, we prove a strong duality theorem and saddle-point conditions.

For each ordinal 1 ≤ α < ω₁ we present separable metrizable spaces $X_{\alpha }$, $Y_{\alpha }$ and $Z_{\alpha }$ such that (i) $f{X}_{\alpha },f{Y}_{\alpha },f{Z}_{\alpha }=\omega ₀$, where f is either trdef or ₀-trsur, (ii) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{X}_{\alpha }=\infty$ and $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{X}_{\alpha }=-1$, (iii) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Y}_{\alpha }=-1$ and $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Y}_{\alpha }=\infty$, and (iv) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=\infty$ and $A(\alpha +1)\cap M(\alpha +1)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=-1$. We also show that there exists no separable metrizable space $W_{\alpha }$ with $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }\ne \infty$, $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }\ne \infty$ and $A\left(\alpha \right)\cap M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }=\infty$, where A(α) (resp. M(α)) is the absolutely additive (resp. multiplicative) Borel class.

Let $X$ be a Baire space, $Y$ be a compact Hausdorff space and $\varphi :X\to C_p\left(Y\right)$ be a quasi-continuous mapping. For a proximal subset $H$ of $Y\times Y$ we will use topological games ${𝒢}_1\left(H\right)$ and ${𝒢}_2\left(H\right)$ on $Y\times Y$ between two players to prove that if the first player has a winning strategy in these games, then $\varphi$ is norm continuous on a dense $G_{\delta }$ subset of $X$. It follows that if $Y$ is Valdivia compact, each quasi-continuous mapping from a Baire space $X$ to $C_p\left(Y\right)$ is norm continuous on a dense $G_{\delta }$ subset of $X$.

Let ${\alpha }_i,{\beta }_i>0$, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, and for t > 0 and x = (x₁,...,xₙ) ∈ ℝⁿ, let $t•x=(t^{\alpha ₁}x₁,...,t^{\alpha ₙ}xₙ)$, $t\circ x=(t^{\beta ₁}x₁,...,t^{\beta ₙ}xₙ)$ and $\left|\right|x\left|\right|={\sum }_{i=1}^n{\left|x_i\right|}^{1/{\alpha }_i}$. Let φ₁,...,φₙ be real functions in $C^{\infty }(ℝⁿ-0)$ such that φ = (φ₁,..., φₙ) satisfies φ(t • x) = t ∘ φ(x). Let γ > 0 and let μ be the Borel measure on ${ℝ}^{2n}$ given by $\mu \left(E\right)={\int }_{ℝⁿ}{\chi }_E{(x,\phi \left(x\right))\left|\right|x\left|\right|}^{\gamma -\alpha }dx$, where $\alpha ={\sum }_{i=1}^n{\alpha }_i$ and dx denotes the Lebesgue measure on ℝⁿ. Let $T_{\mu }f=\mu \ast f$ and let $\left|\right|T_{\mu }{\left|\right|}_{p,q}$ be the operator norm of $T_{\mu }$ from $L^p\left({ℝ}^{2n}\right)$ into $L^q\left({ℝ}^{2n}\right)$, where the $L^p$ spaces are taken with respect to the Lebesgue measure. The type set $E_{\mu }$ is defined by $E_{\mu }=(1/p,1/q):\left|\right|T_{\mu }{\left|\right|}_{p,q}<\infty ,1\le p,q\le \infty$. In the case ${\alpha }_i\ne {\beta }_k$ for 1 ≤ i,k ≤ n we characterize the...

We study WDC sets, which form a substantial generalization of sets with positive reach and still admit the definition of curvature measures. Main results concern WDC sets $A\subset {ℝ}^2$. We prove that, for such $A$, the distance function $d_A=\mathrm{dist}(·,A)$ is a “DC aura” for $A$, which implies that each closed locally WDC set in ${ℝ}^2$ is a WDC set. Another consequence is that compact WDC subsets of ${ℝ}^2$ form a Borel subset of the space of all compact sets.

Let us denote by $\Phi (\lambda ,\mu )$ the statement that $𝔹\left(\lambda \right)=D{\left(\lambda \right)}^{\omega }$, i.e. the Baire space of weight $\lambda$, has a coloring with $\mu$ colors such that every homeomorphic copy of the Cantor set $ℂ$ in $𝔹\left(\lambda \right)$ picks up all the $\mu$ colors. We call a space $X$ $\pi$-regular if it is Hausdorff and for every nonempty open set $U$ in $X$ there is a nonempty open set $V$ such that $\overline{V}\subset U$. We recall that a space $X$ is called feebly compact if every locally finite collection of open sets in $X$ is finite. A Tychonov space is pseudocompact if and...