Some properties of ''s-connectedness between sets'' and ''set s-connected mappings'' (Q789045)

(s-connectedness, s-connectedness between two sets, and set-s-connected mappings are further investigated. A space X is s-connected iff no nonempty proper subset of X is both semi-open and semi-closed and X is s- connected between subsets A and B iff there does not exist a semi-open, semi-closed set F such that \(A\subset F\) and \(F\cap B=\emptyset\). A mapping f from the space X into the space Y is set-s-connected provided that if X is s-connected between A and B, then f(X) is s-connected between f(A) and f(B) with respect to the relative topology. The authors further examine the relationships between s-connectedness between sets and each of connectedness and s-connectedness and between set-s- connectedness mappings and each of continuous and semi-continuous mappings and give conditions under which a set-s-connected mapping will be irresolute. The property of s-connectedness has also appeared in the literature as semi-connectedness [\textit{P. Das}, Indian J. Mech. Math. 12, 31-35 (1974) and \textit{C. Dorsett}, Indian J. Mech. Math. 17, 57-61 (1982; Zbl 0472.54012)].