The existence of continuous weak selections and orderability-type properties in products and filter spaces (Q1676520)

For a Hausdorff topological space \(X\), the hyperspace of nonempty subsets of cardinality \(\leq 2\) is investigated and a continuous weak selection \(\sigma\) is understood as a continuous map from this hyperspace (endowed with the Vietoris topology) to \(X\) satisfying \(\sigma(F) \in F\) for each \(F\) belonging to this hyperspace. Various relationships between orderability, weak orderability and the existence of a continuous weak selection for \(X\) with a single non-isolated point and products of \(X\) are established. In particular, the closed continuous image \(X\) of a suborderable space is proved to be hereditarily paracompact provided that its product \(X \times Y\) with a certain non-discrete space \(Y\) admits a separately continuous (**) weak selection. Three interesting examples and four open questions are also included. Reviewer's remark: ``(**) separately continuous selection'' means here an entirely different notion than the one usually used for multifunctions on product spaces, e.g. in [\textit{Yu. É. Linke}, Math. Notes 63, No. 2, 209--216 (1998; Zbl 0918.54017); translation from Mat. Zametki 63, No. 2, 183--189 (1998)].