Weakly confluent mappings and the covering property of hyperspaces

Branchpoint Covering Theorems for Confluent and Weakly Confluent Maps

A branchpoint of a compactum X is a point which is the vertex of a simple triod in X. A surjective map /: X -» Y is said to cover the branchpoints of Y if each branchpoint in Y is the image of some branchpoint in X. If every map in a class % of maps on a class of compacta & covers the branchpoints of its image, then it is said that the branchpoint covering property holds for ff on 0. According ...

Weakly Confluent Mappings and Finitely-generated Cohomology

In this paper we answer a question of Wayne Lewis by proving that if X is a one-dimensional, hereditarily indecomposable continuum and if HX(X) is finitely generated, then C(X), the hyperspace of subcontinua of X, has dimension 2. Let C(A) be the hyperspace of subcontinua of the continuum X with the topology determined by the Hausdorff metric. A classical theorem of J. L. Kelley [4] asserts tha...

Hereditarily Weakly Confluent Mappings onto S

Results are obtained about the existence and behavior of hereditarily weakly confluent maps of continua onto the unit circle S1. A simple and useful necessary and sufficient condition is given for a map of a continuum, X, onto S1 to be hereditarily weakly confluent (HWC). It is shown that when X is arcwise connected, an HWC map of X onto S1 is monotone with arcwise connected fibers. A number of...

The Reznichenko Property and the Pytkeev Property in Hyperspaces

We investigate two closure-type properties, the Reznichenko property and the Pytkeev property, in hyperspace topologies.

Schur-Pair Property and the Structure of Varietal Covering Groups