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On scatteredly continuous maps between topological spaces

Geometric Topology 2011-10-11 v3 General Topology

Abstract

A map f:XYf:X\to Y between topological spaces is defined to be {\em scatteredly continuous} if for each subspace AXA\subset X the restriction fAf|A has a point of continuity. We show that for a function f:XYf:X\to Y from a perfectly paracompact hereditarily Baire Preiss-Simon space XX into a regular space YY the scattered continuity of ff is equivalent to (i) the weak discontinuity (for each subset AXA\subset X the set D(fA)D(f|A) of discontinuity points of fAf|A is nowhere dense in AA), (ii) the σ\sigma-continuity (XX can be written as a countable union of closed subsets on which ff is continuous), (iii) the GδG_\delta-measurability (the preimage of each open set is of type GδG_\delta). Also under Martin Axiom, we construct a GδG_\delta-measurable map f:XYf:X\to Y between metrizable separable spaces, which is not piecewise continuous. This answers an old question of V.Vinokurov.

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@article{arxiv.0801.2131,
  title  = {On scatteredly continuous maps between topological spaces},
  author = {T. Banakh and B. Bokalo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.2131},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

We have added a (consistent) example of a $G_\delta$-measurable map which is not piecewise continuous. This answers an old question of V.Vinokurov

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