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Normal Vietoris implies compactness: a short proof

G. Di Maio, E. Meccariello, Somashekhar Naimpally (2004)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

One of the most celebrated results in the theory of hyperspaces says that if the Vietoris topology on the family of all nonempty closed subsets of a given space is normal, then the space is compact (Ivanova-Keesling-Velichko). The known proofs use cardinality arguments and are long. In this paper we present a short proof using known results concerning Hausdorff uniformities.

Note on the Wijsman hyperspaces of completely metrizable spaces

J. Chaber, R. Pol (2002)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

We consider the hyperspace C L X of nonempty closed subsets of completely metrizable space X endowed with the Wijsman topologies τ W d . If X is separable and d , e are two metrics generating the topology of X , every countable set closed in C L X , τ W e has isolated points in C L X , τ W d . For d = e , this implies a theorem of Costantini on topological completeness of C L X , τ W d . We show that for nonseparable X the hyperspace C L X , τ W d may contain a closed copy of the rationals. This answers a question of Zsilinszky.

On a compactification of the homeomorphism group of the pseudo-arc

Kazuhiro Kawamura (1991)

Colloquium Mathematicae

A continuum means a compact connected metric space. For a continuum X, H(X) denotes the space of all homeomorphisms of X with the compact-open topology. It is well known that H(X) is a completely metrizable, separable topological group. J. Kennedy [8] considered a compactification of H(X) and studied its properties when X has various types of homogeneity. In this paper we are concerned with the compactification G P of the homeomorphism group of the pseudo-arc P, which is obtained by the method of...

On hit-and-miss hyperspace topologies

Gerald Beer, Robert K. Tamaki (1993)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

The Vietoris topology and Fell topologies on the closed subsets of a Hausdorff uniform space are prototypes for hit-and-miss hyperspace topologies, having as a subbase all closed sets that hit a variable open set, plus all closed sets that miss (= fail to intersect) a variable closed set belonging to a prescribed family Δ of closed sets. In the case of the Fell topology, where Δ consists of the compact sets, a closed set A misses a member B of Δ if and only if A is far from B in a uniform sense....

On indecomposability and composants of chaotic continua

Hisao Kato (1996)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

A homeomorphism f:X → X of a compactum X with metric d is expansive if there is c > 0 such that if x,y ∈ X and x ≠ y, then there is an integer n ∈ ℤ such that d ( f n ( x ) , f n ( y ) ) > c . A homeomorphism f: X → X is continuum-wise expansive if there is c > 0 such that if A is a nondegenerate subcontinuum of X, then there is an integer n ∈ ℤ such that d i a m i f n ( A ) > c . Clearly, every expansive homeomorphism is continuum-wise expansive, but the converse assertion is not true. In [6], we defined the notion of chaotic continua of homeomorphisms...

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