Perfect maps are exponentiable - categorically.
We show that a Tychonoff space is the perfect pre-image of a cofinally complete metric space if and only if it is paracompact and cofinally Čech complete. Further properties of these spaces are discussed. In particular, cofinal Čech completeness is preserved both by perfect mappings and by continuous open mappings.
In this paper we introduce perfectly supportable semigroups and prove that they are σ-discrete in each Hausdorff shiftinvariant topology. The class of perfectly supportable semigroups includes each semigroup S such that FSym(X) ⊂ S ⊂ FRel(X) where FRel(X) is the semigroup of finitely supported relations on an infinite set X and FSym(X) is the group of finitely supported permutations of X.
We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the Higson compactification to be perfect for the noncompact, locally connected, proper metric spaces. We also discuss perfectness of the Smirnov compactification.
We characterize the set of periods and its structure for the Lorenz-like maps depending on the rotation interval. Also, for these maps we give the best lower bound of the topological entropy as a function of the rotation interval.