In un progetto di generalizzazione delle classiche topologie di tipo «set-open» di Arens-Dugundji introduciamo un metodo generale per produrre topologie in spazi di funzioni mediante l'uso di ipertopologie. Siano $X$, $Y$ spazi topologici e $C\left(X,Y\right)$ l'insieme delle funzioni continue da $X$ verso $Y$. Fissato un «network» $\alpha$ nel dominio $X$ ed una topologia $\tau$ nell'iperspazio $CL\left(Y\right)$ del codominio $Y$ si genera una topologia ${\tau }_{\alpha }$ in $C\left(X,Y\right)$ richiedendo che una rete $\left\{f_{\lambda }\right\}$ di $C\left(X,Y\right)$ converge in ${\tau }_{\alpha }$ ad $f\in C\left(X,Y\right)$ se e solo se la rete $\left\{\overline{f_{\lambda }\left(A\right)}\right\}$ converge in $\tau$ ad $\overline{f\left(A\right)}$...

Necessary conditions and sufficient conditions are given for $C_p\left(X\right)$ to be a (σ-) m₁- or m₃-space. (A space is an m₁-space if each of its points has a closure-preserving local base.) A compact uncountable space K is given with $C_p\left(K\right)$ an m₁-space, which answers questions raised by Dow, Ramírez Martínez and Tkachuk (2010) and Tkachuk (2011).

For non-empty topological spaces X and Y and arbitrary families $𝒜$ ⊆ $𝒫\left(X\right)$ and $ℬ\subseteq 𝒫\left(Y\right)$ we put ${𝒞}_{𝒜,ℬ}$=f ∈ $Y^X$ : (∀ A ∈ $𝒜$)(f[A] ∈ $ℬ)$. We examine which classes of functions $ℱ$ ⊆ $Y^X$ can be represented as ${𝒞}_{𝒜,ℬ}$. We are mainly interested in the case when $ℱ=𝒞(X,Y)$ is the class of all continuous functions from X into Y. We prove that for a non-discrete Tikhonov space X the class $ℱ=𝒞$(X,ℝ) is not equal to ${𝒞}_{𝒜,ℬ}$ for any $𝒜$ ⊆ $𝒫\left(X\right)$ and $ℬ$ ⊆ $𝒫$(ℝ). Thus, $𝒞$(X,ℝ) cannot be characterized by images of sets. We also show that none of the following classes of...