Compositions of confluent mappings and some other classes of functions
A map (= continuous function) is of order ≤ k if each of its point-inverses has at most k elements. Following [4], maps of order ≤ 2 are called simple. Which maps are compositions of simple closed [open, clopen] maps? How many simple maps are really needed to represent a given map? It is proved herein that every closed map of order ≤ k defined on an n-dimensional metric space is a composition of (n+1)k-1 simple closed maps (with metric domains). This theorem fails to be true...
We consider when one-to-one continuous mappings can improve normality-type and compactness-type properties of topological spaces. In particular, for any Tychonoff non-pseudocompact space there is a such that can be condensed onto a normal (-compact) space if and only if there is no measurable cardinal. For any Tychonoff space and any cardinal there is a Tychonoff space which preserves many properties of and such that any one-to-one continuous image of , , contains a closed copy...