Comparing sets of the Baire space by means of general recursive operators
We conduct an investigation of the relationships which exist between various generalizations of complete regularity in the setting of merotopic spaces, with particular attention to filter spaces such as Cauchy spaces and convergence spaces. Our primary contribution consists in the presentation of several counterexamples establishing the divergence of various such generalizations of complete regularity. We give examples of: (1) a contigual zero space which is not weakly regular and is not a Cauchy...
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 introduce a new (extended) quasi-metric on the so-called dual p-complexity space, which is suitable to give a quantitative measure of the improvement in complexity obtained when a complexity function is replaced by a more efficient complexity function on all inputs, and show that this distance function has the advantage of possessing rich topological and quasi-metric properties. In particular, its induced topology is Hausdorff and completely regular. Our approach is applied to the measurement...