A glance at spaces with closure-preserving local bases (Q2268643)

All spaces are assumed to be Tychonoff. A space \(X\) is called closure-preserving if for any subfamily \(\mathcal{A}'\) of a family \(\mathcal{A}\) of subsets of X, \(\overline{\cup \mathcal{A}'}= \bigcup\{\bar {A} : A \in \mathcal{A}'\}\). Closure-preserving families arise when paracompact-like properties are considered. A space \(X\) is (weakly) Japanese at a point \(x \in X\) if \(X\) has a closure-preserving local base (quasi-base) at \(x\); \(X\) is (weakly) Japanese if it is (weakly) Japanese at every \(x \in X\), an example of which is a first countable space. The name is given to recognize the contribution of the Japanese school in such classes. This paper studies and proves properties of such spaces as well as raises questions about them. In particular, it proves that any generalized ordered space is Japanese and that the property of being (weakly) Japanese is preserved by \(\sigma\)-products, and that a dyadic compact space is weakly Japanese if and only if it is metrizable. Every scattered Corson compact space is Japanese while there exist Eberlein compact spaces that are not weakly Japanese. The authors show that a continuous image of a compact first countable space can fail to be weakly Japanese, so the (weak) Japanese property is not preserved under perfect maps. Of interest is also the tightness-monolithity of a Japanese space in that every weakly Japanese space \(X\) has tightness \(t(\bar{A})\leq |A|\) for any set \(A \subset X\). One of the questions raised is whether there exists an example of a weakly Japanese space which is not Japanese.