Properties of hyperconnected spaces, their mappings into Hausdorff spaces and embeddings into hyperconnected spaces (Q1207348)

\textit{N. Levine} [Am. Math. Mon. 75, 847-852 (1968; Zbl 0197.190)] calls a space \(X\) a \(D\)-space if every nonempty open subset of \(X\) is dense in \(X\), or equivalently, every pair of nonempty open sets in \(X\) intersect. In the literature \(D\)-spaces are frequently referred to as hyperconnected spaces. In this paper we extend the concept of hyperconnectedness to pointwise hyperconnectedness and use it to study the properties of hyperconnected spaces. We call a space \(X\) pointwise hyperconnected at \(x\) in \(X\) if each open set containing \(x\) is dense in \(X\). It is immediate that a space \(X\) is hyperconnected iff it is pointwise hyperconnected at each of its points. It is clear from the definition that the property of being a hyperconnected space is open hereditary. However, Example 2.3 shows that hyperconnectedness is not even closed hereditary. This corrects an error in [N. Levine, loc. cit.] where it is erroneously stated that hyperconnectedness is hereditary. More generally we show that every topological space can be realized as a closed subspace of a hyperconnected space.