Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4660900 Topology and its Applications 2009 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

For every space X let K(X) be the set of all compact subsets of X. Christensen [J.P.R. Christensen, Necessary and sufficient conditions for measurability of certain sets of closed subsets, Math. Ann. 200 (1973) 189–193] proved that if X,Y are separable metrizable spaces and F:K(X)→K(Y) is a monotone map such that any L∈K(Y) is covered by F(K) for some K∈K(X), then Y is complete provided X is complete. It is well known [J. Baars, J. de Groot, J. Pelant, Function spaces of completely metrizable space, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 340 (1993) 871–879] that this result is not true for non-separable spaces. In this paper we discuss some additional properties of F which guarantee the validity of Christensen's result for more general spaces.

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