Topological properties in Whitney blocks (Q1744604)

For a metric continuum \(X\), let \(C(X)\) denote the hyperspace of subcontinua of \(X\). A Whitney block in \(C(X)\) (respectively, Whitney level) is a set of the form \(\mu^{-1}([s,t])\), where \(\mu : C(X) \rightarrow [0,1]\) is a Whitney map and \(0 \leq s < t < 1\) (respectively, \(\mu^{-1}(s)\), \(s\in[0,1]\)). A classical topic in the theory of hyperspaces is to study which topological properties are inherited from the continuum \(X\) to its Whitney levels and vice versa (see Chapter VIII of [\textit{A. Illanes} and \textit{S. B. Nadler jun.}, Hyperspaces: fundamentals and recent advances. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker (1999; Zbl 0933.54009)]). A continuum \(X\) is \(n\)-mutually aposyndetic if for all pairwise distinct points \(p_{1},\dots,p_{n}\) there exist pairwise disjoint subcontinua \(M_1,\dots,M_n\) of \(X\) such that for each \(i\), \(p_{i}\) is in the interior of \(M_{i}\). In [\textit{M. A. Aguilera}, Topology Appl. 221, 449--464 (2017; Zbl 1376.54013)], the present author showed that some properties related to local connectedness, connectedness by continua, arcwise connectedness, property of Kelley, contractibility, aposyndesis, unicoherence, 3-mutual aposyndesis, etc. are inherited from \(X\) to its Whitney blocks. She also asked if \(m\)-mutual aposyndesis, for \(m >3\), is also inherited to Whitney blocks. In the paper under review, the author continues this line of research by considering the following properties: connectedness im kleinen, being an absolute neighborhood retract, local contractibility and \(m\)-mutual aposyndesis. In particular, she proves that \(m\)-mutual aposyndesis is inherited to Whitney blocks for each \(m>3\).