Selection principles of the Fell topology and the Vietoris topology (Q321403)

For a noncompact Hausdorff space \(X\), let \(\text{CL} (X)\) be the family of all nonempty closed subsets of \(X\). Let \(\tau _F\) (resp., \(\tau_V\)) denote the Fell (resp., Vietoris) topology on \(\text{CL} (X)\). Motivated by \textit{G. Di Maio} et al. [Topology Appl. 153, No. 5--6, 912--923 (2005; Zbl 1087.54007)], the author investigates several selection principles and tightness-like properties for both \((\text{CL} (X), \tau _F)\) and \((\text{CL} (X), \tau _V)\).NEWLINENEWLINEFor collections \({\mathcal A}\) and \({\mathcal B}\) of families of subsets of \(X\), \({S}_1 ({\mathcal A}, {\mathcal B})\) denotes the following selection principle: For each sequence \(({\mathcal U}_n : n \in \mathbb{N})\) of members of \({\mathcal A}\) there is \(\{U_n : n \in \mathbb{N}\}\) such that \(U_n \in {\mathcal U}_n\) for each \(n \in \mathbb{N}\) and \(\{U_n : n \in \mathbb{N} \} \in {\mathcal B}\). A space \(X\) is said to have the Rothberger property if it satisfies \({S}_1 ({\mathcal O}, {\mathcal O})\) for the collection \(\mathcal{O}\) of open covers of \(X\). Introducing the notion of \(\pi_F\)-networks and \(\pi_V\)-networks, the author proves the following: For a space \(X\), \((\text{CL} (X), \tau _F)\) (resp., \((\text{CL} (X), \tau _V)\)) has the Rothberger property if and only if \(X\) satisfies \({S}_1 (\Pi_F, \Pi_F)\) (resp., \({S}_1 (\Pi_V, \Pi_V)\)) for the collection of \(\pi_F\)-networks \(\Pi_F\) (resp., \(\pi_V\)-networks \(\Pi_V\)).NEWLINENEWLINESimilar characterizations of other selection principles including the Menger property and tightness-like properties such as tightness, set-tightness and \(T\)-tightness for \((\text{CL} (X), \tau _F)\) and \((\text{CL} (X), \tau _V)\) are also obtained.