Products of straight spaces

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2008.12.024MaRDI QIDQ1013834zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro Berarducci, Dikran Dikranjan, Jan Pelant

Publication date 23 April 2009

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5080

zbMATH Keywords

locally connected spaceproductstraight metric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subspaces in general topology (54B05) Real-valued functions in general topology (54C30) Connected and locally connected spaces (general aspects) (54D05) Metric spaces, metrizability (54E35)

Abstract: A metric space X is straight if for each finite cover of X by closed sets, and for each real valued function f on X, if f is uniformly continuous on each set of the cover, then f is uniformly continuous on the whole of X. A locally connected space is straight if it is uniformly locally connected (ULC). It is easily seen that ULC spaces are stable under finite products. On the other hand the product of two straight spaces is not necessarily straight. We prove that the product X x Y of two metric spaces is straight if and only if both X and Y are straight and one of the following conditions holds: (a) both X and Y are precompact; (b) both X and Y are locally connected; (c) one of the spaces is both precompact and locally connected. In particular, when X satisfies (c), the product X x Z is straight for every straight space Z. Finally, we characterize when infinite products of metric spaces are ULC and we completely solve the problem of straightness of infinite products of ULC spaces.

Review text

The reviewed paper is a continuation of the authors' papers [Topology Appl. 146--147, 339--352 (2005; Zbl 1078.54014); ibid. 153, No.~17, 3355--3371 (2006; Zbl 1129.54012)]. A metric space \(X\) is said to be straight if, for any finite closed cover of \(X\), a real-valued continuous map is uniformly continuous provided it is uniformly continuous on every member of the cover. It is proved that a product of two straight spaces is straight iff either both spaces are precompact or both are uniformly locally connected (briefly, ULC) or one of the spaces is both precompact and ULC. Another result characterizes metric spaces for which the product with any straight space is straight: those are precompact ULC. Also countable products of straight spaces are examined and some sufficient and some necessary conditions are given. In addition to other results and examples about straight spaces, several open problems and questions are formulated at the end of the paper.

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