We determine the size levels for any function on the hyperspace of an arc as follows. Assume Z is a continuum and consider the following three conditions: 1) Z is a planar AR; 2) cut points of Z have component number two; 3) any true cyclic element of Z contains at most two cut points of Z. Then any size level for an arc satisfies 1)-3) and conversely, if Z satisfies 1)-3), then Z is a diameter level for some arc.

Let K(X) be the hyperspace of a compact metric space endowed with the Hausdorff metric. We give a general theorem showing that certain subsets of K(X) are true $F_{\sigma \delta }$ sets.

Let (X,f) be a dynamical system. In general the set of all ω-limit sets of f is not closed in the hyperspace of closed subsets of X. In this paper we study the case when X is a graph, and show that the family of ω-limit sets of a graph map is closed with respect to the Hausdorff metric.

We investigate striped structures of stable and unstable sets of expansive homeomorphisms and continuum-wise expansive homeomorphisms. The following theorem is proved: if f : X → X is an expansive homeomorphism of a compact metric space X with dim X > 0, then the decompositions $W^S\left(x\right)|x\in X$ and $W^{(}u\left)\left(x\right)\right|x\in X$ of X into stable and unstable sets of f respectively are uncountable, and moreover there is σ (= s or u) and ϱ > 0 such that there is a Cantor set C in X with the property that for each x ∈ C, $W^{\sigma }\left(x\right)$ contains a nondegenerate...

By $F_n\left(X\right)$, $n\ge 1$, we denote the $n$-th symmetric product of a metric space $(X,d)$ as the space of the non-empty finite subsets of $X$ with at most $n$ elements endowed with the Hausdorff metric $d_H$. In this paper we shall describe that every isometry from the $n$-th symmetric product $F_n\left(X\right)$ into itself is induced by some isometry from $X$ into itself, where $X$ is either the Euclidean space or the sphere with the usual metrics. Moreover, we study the $n$-th symmetric product of the Euclidean space up to bi-Lipschitz equivalence and...

Answering a question of Halbeisen we prove (by two different methods) that the algebraic dimension of each infinite-dimensional complete linear metric space X equals the size of X. A topological method gives a bit more: the algebraic dimension of a linear metric space X equals |X| provided the hyperspace K(X) of compact subsets of X is a Baire space. Studying the interplay between Baire properties of a linear metric space X and its hyperspace, we construct a hereditarily Baire linear metric space...

We characterize metric spaces whose hyperspaces of non-empty closed, bounded, compact or finite subsets, endowed with the Attouch-Wets topology, are absolute (neighborhood) retracts.

Let $Con{v}_H\left(X\right)$, $Con{v}_{AW}\left(X\right)$ and $Con{v}_W\left(X\right)$ be the spaces of all non-empty closed convex sets in a normed linear space X admitting the Hausdorff metric topology, the Attouch-Wets topology and the Wijsman topology, respectively. We show that every component of $Con{v}_H\left(X\right)$ and the space $Con{v}_{AW}\left(X\right)$ are AR. In case X is separable, $Con{v}_W\left(X\right)$ is locally path-connected.

We prove that, for any Hausdorff continuum X, if dim X ≥ 2 then the hyperspace C(X) of subcontinua of X is not a C-space; if dim X = 1 and X is hereditarily indecomposable then either dim C(X) = 2 or C(X) is not a C-space. This generalizes some results known for metric continua.