On metrizability of continuous images of compact ordered spaces
Whyburn has proved that each open mapping defined on arc (a simple closed curve) is light. Charatonik and Omiljanowski have proved that each open mapping defined on a local dendrite is light. Theorem 3.8 is an extension of these results.
We show that a metrizable continuum X is locally connected if and only if every partition in the cylinder over X between the bottom and the top of the cylinder contains a connected partition between these sets. J. Krasinkiewicz asked whether for every metrizable continuum X there exists a partiton L between the top and the bottom of the cylinder X × I such that L is a hereditarily indecomposable continuum. We answer this question in the negative. We also present a construction...
F. van Gool [Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin. 33 (1992), 505–523] has introduced the concept of lower semicontinuity for functions with values in a quasi-uniform space . This note provides a purely topological view at the basic ideas of van Gool. The lower semicontinuity of van Gool appears to be just the continuity with respect to the topology generated by the quasi-uniformity , so that many of his preparatory results become consequences of standard topological facts. In particular, when the order...