On one-to-one continuous images of \(\mathbb{R}\) (Q1183629)

The authors show that a hereditarily unicoherent space \(X\) is the one-to- one continuous image of the real line if and only if each point of \(X\) is a weak cut point of order 2. An example shows that such an equivalence is not true for atriodic spaces. It is also shown that a non-compact space \(X\) is a one-to-one continuous image of the half line if and only if \(X\) is hereditarily unicoherent and there exists a point \(e\in X\) which is not a weak cut point, while each point of \(X-\{e\}\) is a weak cut point of order 2.