Open images of the Sorgenfrey line (Q2033194)

Since R. H. Sorgenfrey proposed the concept of Sorgenfrey line in 1947, the Sorgenfrey line has played an important role in topology, especially in constructing examples. In this paper, the author gives a description of Hausdorff open images of the Sorgenfrey line, and proves that a Hausdorff space is a continuous open image of the Sorgenfrey line iff there exists a Sorgenfrey base for this space. Using this result, the author further proves that no compact space that contains a homeomorphic copy of the Sorgenfrey line is an open image of it. This result gives a negative answer to the following question: Is the double-arrow (two-arrow) space a continuous open image of the Sorgenfrey line?