-directed inverse systems of continuous images of arcs.
For every topological property , we define the class of -approximable spaces which consists of spaces X having a countable closed cover such that the “section” has the property for each . It is shown that every -approximable compact space has , if is one of the following properties: countable tightness, -scatteredness with respect to character, -closedness, sequentiality (the last holds under MA or ). Metrizable-approximable spaces are studied: every compact space in this class has...
It is known that for a nonempty topological space and a nonsingleton complete lattice endowed with the Scott topology, the partially ordered set of all continuous functions from into is a continuous lattice if and only if both and the open set lattice are continuous lattices. This result extends to certain classes of -distributive lattices, where is a subset system replacing the system of all directed subsets (for which the -distributive complete lattices are just the continuous...
A metric space (X,d) is monotone if there is a linear order < on X and a constant c such that d(x,y) ≤ cd(x,z) for all x < y < z in X, and σ-monotone if it is a countable union of monotone subspaces. A planar set homeomorphic to the Cantor set that is not σ-monotone is constructed and investigated. It follows that there is a metric on a Cantor set that is not σ-monotone. This answers a question raised by the second author.
Let X be a continuum. Let C(X) denote the hyperspace of all subcontinua of X. In this paper we prove that the following assertions are equivalent: (a) X is a dendroid, (b) each positive Whitney level in C(X) is 2-connected, and (c) each positive Whitney level in C(X) is ∞-connected (n-connected for each n ≥ 0).