The product of two chainable Kelley continua is also a Kelley continuum (Q2279522)

In this work, a continuum \(X\) is a nonempty, compact, connected, metric space, and \(C(X)\) is its hyperspace of subcontinua. One says that \(X\) is a Kelley continuum (i.e., has the Property of Kelley) if for each \(\epsilon>0\), there exists \(\delta>0\), such that for all \(A\in C(X)\), \(p\in A\), and \(q\in B(p,\delta)\), there exists \(B\in C(X)\) such that \(q\in B\) and \(H_X(A,B)<\epsilon\). Generally speaking, and as made clear by the historical remarks in the Introduction, the product \(X\times Y\) of Kelley continua \(X\) and \(Y\) need not be a Kelley continuum. However one might seek a class of continua that exhibits the opposite of this phenomenon. The main result of this paper is: Theorem 2.3. If \(X\) and \(Y\) are chainable Kelley continua, then \(X\times Y\) is a Kelley continuum. An open question is: Problem 1.2. Is the product \(X\times Y\) of Kelley dendroids \(X\) and \(Y\) a Kelley continuum?