We demonstrate that a second countable space is weakly orderable if and only if it has a continuous weak selection. This provides a partial positive answer to a question of van Mill and Wattel.

We demonstrate that every Vietoris continuous selection for the hyperspace of at most 3-point subsets implies the existence of a continuous selection for the hyperspace of at most 4-point subsets. However, in general, we do not know if such ``extensions'' are possible for hyperspaces of sets of other cardinalities. In particular, we do not know if the hyperspace of at most 3-point subsets has a continuous selection provided the hyperspace of at most 2-point subsets has a continuous selection.

It is proved that for a zero-dimensional space $X$, the function space $C_p(X,2)$ has a Vietoris continuous selection for its hyperspace of at most 2-point sets if and only if $X$ is separable. This provides the complete affirmative solution to a question posed by Tamariz-Mascarúa. It is also obtained that for a strongly zero-dimensional metrizable space $E$, the function space $C_p(X,E)$ is weakly orderable if and only if its hyperspace of at most 2-point sets has a Vietoris continuous selection. This provides a partial...

Let $X$ be a finite graph. Let $C\left(X\right)$ be the hyperspace of all nonempty subcontinua of $X$ and let $\mu :C\left(X\right)\to ℝ$ be a Whitney map. We prove that there exist numbers $0<T_0<T_1<T_2<\cdots <T_M=\mu \left(X\right)$ such that if $T\in (T_{i-1},T_i)$, then the Whitney block ${\mu }^{-1}(T_{i-1},T_i)$ is homeomorphic to the product ${\mu }^{-1}\left(T\right)\times (T_{i-1},T_i)$. We also show that there exists only a finite number of topologically different Whitney levels for $C\left(X\right)$.

It is shown that there is no Whitney map on the hyperspace $2^X$ for non-metrizable Hausdorff compact spaces X. Examples are presented of non-metrizable continua X which admit and ones which do not admit a Whitney map for C(X).

We prove the following results. (i) Let X be a continuum such that X contains a dense arc component and let D be a dendrite with a closed set of branch points. If f:X → D is a Whitney preserving map, then f is a homeomorphism. (ii) For each dendrite D' with a dense set of branch points there exist a continuum X' containing a dense arc component and a Whitney preserving map f':X' → D' such that f' is not a homeomorphism.

Given a metric space ⟨X,ρ⟩, consider its hyperspace of closed sets CL(X) with the Wijsman topology ${\tau }_{W\left(\rho \right)}$. It is known that $⟨CL\left(X\right),{\tau }_{W\left(\rho \right)}⟩$ is metrizable if and only if X is separable, and it is an open question by Di Maio and Meccariello whether this is equivalent to $⟨CL\left(X\right),{\tau }_{W\left(\rho \right)}⟩$ being normal. We prove that if the weight of X is a regular uncountable cardinal and X is locally separable, then $⟨CL\left(X\right),{\tau }_{W\left(\rho \right)}⟩$ is not normal. We also solve some questions by Cao, Junnila and Moors regarding isolated points in Wijsman hyperspaces.