Continuous functions which take a somewhere dense set of values on every open set (Q1975541)

Let \(X\), \(Y\) be topological spaces. A continuous function \(f: X\to Y\) is called nowhere thin if \(f^{-1}(E)\) is nowhere dense in \(X\) for each nowhere dense set \(E\) in \(Y\). (For applications of such functions see [\textit{M. R. Burke} and \textit{K.~Ciesielski}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 127, No. 11, 3295-3304 (1999; Zbl 0939.26003)].) The main question considered in this paper is for which topological spaces \(X\) there is a nowhere thin continuous function from \(X\) into the real line \(\mathbb{R}\). Author shows that: \(\bullet\) every zero-dimensional metrizable space without isolated points has this property; \(\bullet\)~the real line equipped with the density topology, the Stone space of the measure algebra of \([0,1]\) and the space \([\omega]^{\omega}\) with the Ellentuck topology do not have a nowhere thin continuous map into \(\mathbb{R}\).