An alternative approach to the decomposition of functions (Q409721)

Let \(X\) and \(Y\) be arbitrary subsets of the Cantor set. This paper deals with the study of qualitative properties of functions \(f:X\rightarrow Y\) satisfying (i) \(f\) has compact fibers and takes clopen sets \(U\subset X\) to \(F_\sigma\) and \(G_\delta\)--sets \(B\subset Y\); (ii) there exist \(T_n\subset X\) such that every restriction \(f|T_n\) is a closed or an open function onto \(Y_n=f(T_n)\) and \(Y=\cup_{n=1}^\infty Y_n\). The main results in the present paper are related to the problem of preservation of Borel classes by open-Borel functions and to Luzin's question concerning the decomposition of Borel-measurable functions into countably many continuous mappings.