Insertion and extension theorems for lattice-valued functions on preordered topological spaces (Q616943)

The present paper deals with lattice-valued functions defined on preordered topological spaces in which no separation axiom is assumed. The authors study conditions for the insertion (double insertion) of a continuous monotone function (a pair of semicontinuous monotone functions) between comparable functions of a prefixed type. They first establish a sufficient condition for inserting a continuous and increasing lattice-valued function between a pair of comparable functions, then they obtain new different characterizations (in terms of insertion and double insertion) of several classes of preordered topological spaces, among them normally preordered and extremally preorder-disconnected spaces. At the end, they study, by the obtained insertion theorem, the extension properties of continuous and increasing lattice-valued functions on preordered topological spaces, getting extension theorems of Tietze-type.