A study of cut points in connected topological spaces (Q649791)

A topological space space \(X\) is called \(H(i)\) if every open cover of \(X\) has a finite subcollection such that the closures of the members of that subcollection cover \(X\) (no separation axioms are assumed). The main result of this paper is that every \(H(i)\) subset \(H\) of a connected space \(X\) such that there is no proper connected subset of \(X\) containing \(H\), contains at least two non-cut points of \(X\). This result is used to show that a connected space \(X\) is a COTS (a connected ordered topological space as defined by \textit{E. Khalimsky, R. Kopperman} and \textit{P. R. Meyer} [Topology Appl. 36, No. 1, 1--17 (1990; Zbl 0709.54017)]) with endpoints if and only if \(X\) has at most two non-cut points and has an \(H(i)\) subset \(H\) such that there is no proper connected subset of \(X\) which contains \(H\).