For a metric continuum X, let C(X) (resp., $2^X$) be the hyperspace of subcontinua (resp., nonempty closed subsets) of X. Let f: X → Y be an almost continuous function. Let C(f): C(X) → C(Y) and $2^f:2^X\to 2^Y$ be the induced functions given by $C\left(f\right)\left(A\right)=c{l}_Y\left(f\left(A\right)\right)$ and $2^f\left(A\right)=c{l}_Y\left(f\left(A\right)\right)$. In this paper, we prove that: • If $2^f$ is almost continuous, then f is continuous. • If C(f) is almost continuous and X is locally connected, then f is continuous. • If X is not locally connected, then there exists an almost continuous function f: X → [0,1] such that...

We construct examples of mappings $f$ and $g$ between locally connected continua such that $2^f$ and $C\left(f\right)$ are near-homeomorphisms while $f$ is not, and $2^g$ is a near-homeomorphism, while $g$ and $C\left(g\right)$ are not. Similar examples for refinable mappings are constructed.

This paper completes and improves results of [10]. Let $(X,d_{{}_X})$, $(Y,d_{{}_Y})$ be two metric spaces and $G$ be the space of all $Y$-valued continuous functions whose domain is a closed subset of $X$. If $X$ is a locally compact metric space, then the Kuratowski convergence ${\tau }_{{}_K}$ and the Kuratowski convergence on compacta ${\tau }_{{}_K}^c$ coincide on $G$. Thus if $X$ and $Y$ are boundedly compact metric spaces we have the equivalence of the convergence in the Attouch-Wets topology ${\tau }_{{}_{AW}}$ (generated by the box metric of $d_{{}_X}$ and $d_{{}_Y}$) and ${\tau }_{{}_K}^c$ convergence on $G$,...

In the first part of the paper behavior of conditions related to local connectivity at a point is discussed if the space is transformed under a mapping that is interior or open at the considered point of the domain. The second part of the paper deals with metric locally connected continua. They are characterized as continua for which the hyperspace of their nonempty closed subjects is homogeneous with respect to open mappings. A similar characterization for the hyperspace of subcontinua remains...

A connected topological space $Z$ is unicoherent provided that if $Z=A\cup B$ where $A$ and $B$ are closed connected subsets of $Z$, then $A\cap B$ is connected. Let $Z$ be a unicoherent space, we say that $z\in Z$ makes a hole in $Z$ if $Z-\left\{z\right\}$ is not unicoherent. In this work the elements that make a hole to the cone and the suspension of a metric space are characterized. We apply this to give the classification of the elements of hyperspaces of some continua that make them hole.

For a Tychonoff space $X$, let $\downarrow {\mathrm{C}}_F\left(X\right)$ be the family of hypographs of all continuous maps from $X$ to $[0,1]$ endowed with the Fell topology. It is proved that $X$ has a dense separable metrizable locally compact open subset if $\downarrow {\mathrm{C}}_F\left(X\right)$ is metrizable. Moreover, for a first-countable space $X$, $\downarrow {\mathrm{C}}_F\left(X\right)$ is metrizable if and only if $X$ itself is a locally compact separable metrizable space. There exists a Tychonoff space $X$ such that $\downarrow {\mathrm{C}}_F\left(X\right)$ is metrizable but $X$ is not first-countable.

We define a metric $d_S$, called the shape metric, on the hyperspace $2^X$ of all non-empty compact subsets of a metric space X. Using it we prove that a compactum X in the Hilbert cube is movable if and only if X is the limit of a sequence of polyhedra in the shape metric. This fact is applied to show that the hyperspace $(2^{ℝ}2$, dS)$isseparable.Ontheotherhand,wegiveanexampleshowingthat$2ℝ2$isnotseparableinthefundamentalmetricintroducedbyBorsuk.$