-Lindelöf spaces.
Based on some earlier findings on Banach Category Theorem for some “nice” -ideals by J. Kaniewski, D. Rose and myself I introduce the operator ( stands for “heavy points”) to refine and generalize kernel constructions of A. H. Stone. Having obtained in this way a generalized Kuratowski’s decomposition theorem I prove some characterizations of the domains of functions having “many” points of -continuity. Results of this type lead, in the case of the -ideal of meager sets, to important statements...
We study when a topological space has a weaker connected topology. Various sufficient and necessary conditions are given for a space to have a weaker Hausdorff or regular connected topology. It is proved that the property of a space of having a weaker Tychonoff topology is preserved by any of the free topological group functors. Examples are given for non-preservation of this property by “nice” continuous mappings. The requirement that a space have a weaker Tychonoff connected topology is rather...
It is shown that if is a first-countable countably compact subspace of ordinals then is Lindelöf. This result is used to construct an example of a countably compact space such that the extent of is less than the Lindelöf number of . This example answers negatively Reznichenko’s question whether Baturov’s theorem holds for countably compact spaces.
We prove that a compact family of bounded condensing multifunctions has bounded condensing set-theoretic union. Compactness is understood in the sense of the Chebyshev uniform semimetric induced by the Hausdorff distance and condensity is taken w.r.t. the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness. As a tool, we present an estimate for the measure of an infinite union. Then we apply our result to infinite iterated function systems.
A family of subsets of a set is called a -topology if it is closed under arbitrary countable unions and arbitrary finite intersections. A -topology is perfect if any its member (open set) is a countable union of complements of open sets. In this paper perfect -topologies are characterized in terms of inserting lower and upper measurable functions. This improves upon and extends a similar result concerning perfect topologies. Combining this characterization with a -topological version of Katětov-Tong...
Necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of lower cut sets are given for the insertion of a Baire- function between two comparable real-valued functions on the topological spaces that -kernel of sets are -sets.
In the shape from shading problem of computer vision one attempts to recover the three-dimensional shape of an object or landscape from the shading on a single image. Under the assumptions that the surface is dusty, distant, and illuminated only from above, the problem reduces to that of solving the eikonal equation |Du|=f on a domain in . Despite various existence and uniqueness theorems for smooth solutions, we show that this problem is unstable, which is catastrophic for general numerical algorithms. ...