On continuously irreducible continua (Q837563)

A continuum \(X\) is irreducible if there are \(p,q\in X\) with no proper subcontinuum of \(X\) containing both \(p,q\). A continuum \(X\) is of type \(\lambda\), if \(X\) is irreducible and each indecomposable subcontinuum of \(X\) has empty interior; equivalently, if \(X\) admits a finest monotone upper semicontinuous decomposition \({\mathcal G}\) such that each element of \({\mathcal G}\) is nowhere dense and \(Z/{\mathcal G}\) is an arc. A continuously irreducible continuum is a continuum of type \(\lambda\) for which \({\mathcal G}\) is continuous (i.e. when the quotient map \(q:Z\to Z/{\mathcal G}\) is closed and open). Let \(2^X\) be the hyperspace of nonempty closed subsets of the continuum \(X\) endowed with the Vietoris topology, and define the set function \({\mathcal T}:2^X\to 2^X\) via \({\mathcal T}(A)=X\setminus \{x\in X: \;\text{there exists a subcontinuum }W\) of \(X\) such that