Local connectedness and connected open functions.
In the first part of the paper behavior of conditions related to local connectivity at a point is discussed if the space is transformed under a mapping that is interior or open at the considered point of the domain. The second part of the paper deals with metric locally connected continua. They are characterized as continua for which the hyperspace of their nonempty closed subjects is homogeneous with respect to open mappings. A similar characterization for the hyperspace of subcontinua remains...
We provide a machinery for transferring some properties of metrizable ANR-spaces to metrizable LCn-spaces. As a result, we show that for completely metrizable spaces the properties ALCn, LCn and WLCn coincide to each other. We also provide the following spectral characterizations of ALCn and celllike compacta: A compactum X is ALCn if and only if X is the limit space of a σ-complete inverse system S = {Xα , pβ α , α < β < τ} consisting of compact metrizable LCn-spaces Xα such that all bonding...