On some kinds of weakly sober spaces (Q2295672)

In [Appl. Categ. Struct. 26, No. 5, 823--854 (2018; Zbl 1441.06003)], in order to extend the theory of locally compact sober spaces to situations where directed suprema are missing, \textit{M. Erné} weakened the concept of sobriety and introduced three kinds of weak sober spaces: quasisober spaces, weakly sober spaces, and cut spaces. He showed that the locally hypercompact weakly sober spaces are exactly the weak Scott spaces of \(s_2\)-quasicontinuous posets in the sense of [\textit{W. Zhang} and \textit{X. Xu}, Theor. Comput. Sci. 574, 78--85 (2015; Zbl 1315.06007)]. This approach generalizes and facilitates many results in the theory of quasicontinuous posets. In this paper, the authors mainly investigate some closure properties of quasisobriety, weak sobriety, and the notion of cut spaces: are these properties transferred to subspaces, retracts, products, and Smyth power spaces? It is shown that some properties which are similar to that of sober spaces hold and others do not hold. In particular, it is proved that if the Smyth power space of a \(T_0\) \(X\) is quasisober and the specialization order on \(X\) is a sup semilattice, then \(X\) is quasisober; and if the Smyth power space of a well-filtered space \(Y\) is quasisober, then \(Y\) is sober. A counterexample illustrates that the products of quasisober spaces (cut spaces, weakly sober spaces) is not always a quasisober space (cut space, weakly sober space).