Continuous Selections of Lower semicontinuous Set-valued Mappings

Abstract: A space

X

is strongly

Y

-selective (resp.,

Y

-selective) if every lower semicontinuous mapping from

Y

to the nonempty subsets (resp., nonempty closed subsets) of

X

has a continuous selection. We also call

X

(strongly)

C

-selective if it is (strongly)

Y

-selective for any countable space

Y

, and (strongly)

L

-selective if it is (strongly) (

o m e g a + 1

)-selective. E. Michael showed that every first countable space is strongly

C

-selective. We extend this by showing that every

W

-space in the sense of the second author is strongly

C

-selective. We also show that every GO-space is

C

-selective, and that every

L

-selective space has Arhangel'skii's property

a l p h a_{1}

. We obtain an example under

m a t h f r a k p = m a t h f r a k c

of a strongly

L

-selective space that is not

C

-selective, and we show that it is consistent with and independent of ZFC that a space is strongly

L

-selective iff it is

L

-selective and Fr'echet. Finally, we answer a question of the third author and Junnila by showing that the ordinal space

o m e g a_{1} + 1

is not self-selective.

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