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Cliquishness and Quasicontinuity of Two Variables Maps

General Topology 2010-10-05 v1

Abstract

We study the existence of continuity points for mappings f:X×YZf: X\times Y\to Z whose xx-sections Yyf(x,y)ZY\ni y\to f(x,y)\in Z are fragmentable and yy-sections Xxf(x,y)ZX\ni x\to f(x,y)\in Z are quasicontinuous, where XX is a Baire space and ZZ is a metric space. For the factor YY, we consider two infinite "point-picking" games G1(y)G_1(y) and G2(y)G_2(y) defined respectively for each yYy\in Y as follows: In the nnth inning, Player I gives a dense set DnYD_n\subset Y, respectively, a dense open set DnYD_n\subset Y, then Player II picks a point yn\inDny_n\inD_n; II wins if yy is in the closure of {yn:nN}\{y_n:n\in\mathbb N\}, otherwise I wins. It is shown that (i) ff is cliquish if II has a winning strategy in G1(y)G_1(y) for every yYy\in Y, and (ii) ff is quasicontinuous if the xx-sections of ff are continuous and the set of yYy\in Y such that II has a winning strategy in G2(y)G_2(y) is dense in YY. Item (i) extends substantially a result of Debs (1986) and item (ii) indicates that the problem of Talagrand (1985) on separately continuous maps has a positive answer for a wide class of "small" compact spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1010.0441,
  title  = {Cliquishness and Quasicontinuity of Two Variables Maps},
  author = {Ahmed Bouziad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0441},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, to appear in Canadian Math. Bull