Real functions, covers and bornologies (Q2067295)

If \(X\) is a topological space, then \(C(X)\) is the set of all real-valued continuous functions on \(X\) while \(USC(X) \subset \mathbb R^X\) consists of upper semicontinuous functions. Given a set \(X\), a proper ideal \(\mathcal B\) of subsets of \(X\) is called a bornology on \(X\) if \(\bigcup\mathcal B=X\). If \(\mathcal B\) is a bornology on \(X\) and \(\mathcal C \subset \mathbb R^X\), then \(\tau_{\mathcal B}\) is the topology on \(\mathcal C\) of uniform convergence on the elements of \(\mathcal B\). The paper is a survey of recent results about relationships between covering properties of a topological space \(X\) and selection properties in a space of functions on \(X\). The paper considers both pointwise convergence topology and the topology \(\tau_{\mathcal B}\) on the sets \(C(X)\) and \(USC(X)\). The results for the above-mentioned topologies on \(C(X)\) and \(USC(X)\) are also extended to the sets of \(\mathcal A\)-measurable and \(\mathcal A\)-semimeasurable real-valued functions on \(X\) where \(\mathcal A\) is a given family of subsets of the space \(X\).