Zero-selectors and GO spaces

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2004.10.018MaRDI QIDQ2565566zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giuliano Artico, Umberto Marconi, Jan Pelant

Publication date 27 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2004.10.018

GO space Hyperspace Orderable space Ordinal space Scattered space Selection Vietoris topology

Hyperspaces in general topology (54B20) Selections in general topology (54C65) Linearly ordered topological spaces, generalized ordered spaces, and partially ordered spaces (54F05) Scattered spaces (54G12)

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Let \(X\) be a regular space. Let \(F(X)\) be the set of all nonempty closed subsets of \(X\), equipped with the Vietoris topology. A continuous zero-selector on a subspace \(U\) of \(F(X)\) is a continuous function \(s\) from \(U\) to \(X\) such that \(s(A)\) is a relatively isolated point of \(A\) for each \(A\) in \(U\). Continuous zero-selectors can be defined quite easily for spaces of ordinals: just take for each nonempty closed set its minimum. A space \(X\) is scattered if every nonempty (closed) subset \(F\) of \(X\) has a point relatively isolated in \(F\). The main result of this paper is the following. THEOREM. Let \(X\) be a regular space such that there exists a continuous zero-selector defined on the family of the countable infinite closed subsets of \(X\) with at most one limit point. Then \(X\) is scattered in the following cases: (a) \(X\) is a metric space, (b) every countable subset of \(X\) is closed, (c) \(X\) is a non-Archimedean space (\(X\) has a basis \(B\) such that if \(U\) and \(V\) are intersecting elements of \(B\), then one of the sets \(U\) or \(V\) is contained in the other). The authors also use continuous zero-selectors to characterize suborderable spaces which are subspaces of ordinals.

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