On relative \(\beta\)-normality (Q2179858)

\textit{A. V. Arhangel'skii} and \textit{L. Ludwig} [Commentat. Math. Univ. Carol. 42, No. 3, 507--519 (2001; Zbl 1053.54030)] defined a space \(X\) to be \(\alpha\)-normal (resp. \(\beta\)-normal) provided for any two disjoint closed set \(A\), \(B\) of \(X\) there exist open sets \(U, V\) of \(X\) such that \(A \cap U\) is dense in \(A\) and \(B \cap V\) is dense in \(B\) and \(U \cap V = \emptyset\) (resp. \(\overline{U}\cap\overline{V}=\emptyset\)). They assumed they were working in \(T_1\)-spaces. In this paper the authors, for \(Y \subset X\), define the subspace \(Y\) to be relatively \(\alpha\)-normal (resp. relatively \(\beta\)-normal) if given two disjoint closed subsets \(A,B\) of \(X\) there exist open subsets \( U,V\) of \(X\) such that \((A \cap Y) \cap U\) is dense in \(A \cap Y\) and \((B \cap Y) \cap V\) is dense in \(B \cap Y\) and \(U \cap V = \emptyset\) (\(\overline{U}\cap\overline{V}=\emptyset\)). The authors show how their results are related to other kinds of weak normality. For an example of weak normality, a set is called mildly normal by \textit{M. K. Singal} and \textit{A. R. Singal} [Kyungpook Math. J. 13, 27--31 (1973; Zbl 0266.54006)] if instead of two disjoint closed sets, one takes two disjoint regular closed sets (this notion was also defined under the name \(\kappa\)-normal by \textit{E. V. Shchepin} [Sib. Mat. Zh. 13, 1182--1196 (1972; Zbl 0256.54011)]). In the paper under review, except for the example of Fort's space, the examples are spaces on sets of three or four points, none of which are \(T_1\)-spaces.