Semi-closed sets and the associated topology
Let X be a completely regular Hausdorff topological space and the space of continuous real-valued maps on X endowed with the pointwise topology. A simple and natural argument is presented to show how to construct on the space , if X contains a homeomorphic copy of the closed interval [0,1], real-valued maps which are everywhere discontinuous but continuous on all compact subsets of .
In this paper, we prove that a space is a sequentially-quotient -image of a metric space if and only if has a point-star -network consisting of -covers. By this result, we prove that a space is a sequentially-quotient -image of a separable metric space if and only if has a countable -network, if and only if is a sequentially-quotient compact image of a separable metric space; this answers a question raised by Shou Lin affirmatively. We also obtain some results on spaces with countable...