The main result is slightly more general than the following statement: Let f: X → Y be a quasi-perfect mapping, where X is a regular space and Y a Hausdorff totally non-meagre space; if X or Y is χ-scattered, or if Y is a Lasnev space, then X is totally non-meagre. In particular, the product of a compact space X and a Hausdorff regular totally non-meagre space Y which is χ-scattered or a Lasnev space, is totally non-meagre.
A simple machinery is developed for the preservation of Baire spaces under preimages. Subsequently, some properties of maps which preserve nowhere dense sets are given.
Let X be a Borel subset of the Cantor set C of additive or multiplicative class α, and f: X → Y be a continuous function onto Y ⊂ C with compact preimages of points. If the image f(U) of every clopen set U is the intersection of an open and a closed set, then Y is a Borel set of the same class α. This result generalizes similar results for open and closed functions.
We study a probabilistic generalization of Lowen's approach spaces. Such a probabilistic approach space is defined in terms of a probabilistic distance which assigns to a point and a subset a distance distribution function. We give a suitable axiom scheme and show that the resulting category is isomorphic to the category of left-continuous probabilistic topological convergence spaces and hence is a topological category. We further show that the category of Lowen's approach spaces is isomorphic to...
Generalizing a theorem of Oxtoby, it is shown that an arbitrary product of Baire spaces which are almost locally universally Kuratowski-Ulam (in particular, have countable-in-itself π-bases) is a Baire space. Also, partially answering a question of Fleissner, it is proved that a countable box product of almost locally universally Kuratowski-Ulam Baire spaces is a Baire space.
In the present article we provide an example of two closed non--lower porous sets such that the product is lower porous. On the other hand, we prove the following: Let and be topologically complete metric spaces, let be a non--lower porous Suslin set and let be a non--porous Suslin set. Then the product is non--lower porous. We also provide a brief summary of some basic properties of lower porosity, including a simple characterization of Suslin non--lower porous sets in topologically...