All hypertopologies are hit-and-miss

[EN] We solve a long standing problem by showing that all known hypertopologies are hit-and-miss. Our solution is not merely of theoretical importance. This representation is useful in the study of comparison of the Hausdorff-Bourbaki or H-B uniform topologies and the Wijsman topologies among themse...

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Autor: Naimpally, Somashekhar
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/82018
Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/82018
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Hypertopology
Vietoris topology
Hausdorff metric
Hausdorff-Bourbaki uniformity
Uniformity
Proximal topology
Hit-and-miss topology
Locally finite
Wijsman topology
Proximal ball topology
Ball topology
Far-miss topology
Bounded Vietoris topology
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Resumo:[EN] We solve a long standing problem by showing that all known hypertopologies are hit-and-miss. Our solution is not merely of theoretical importance. This representation is useful in the study of comparison of the Hausdorff-Bourbaki or H-B uniform topologies and the Wijsman topologies among themselves and with others. Up to now some of these comparisons needed intricate manipulations. The H-B uniform topologies were the subject of intense activity in the 1960's in connection with the Isbell-Smith problem. We show that they are proximally locally finite topologies from which the solution to the above problem follows easily. It is known that the Wijsman topology on the hyperspace is the proximal ball (hit-and-miss) topology in”nice” metric spaces including the normed linear spaces. With the introduction of a new far-miss topology we show that the Wijsman topology is hit-and-miss for all metric spaces. From this follows a natural generalization of the Wijsman topology to the hyperspace of any T1 space. Several existing results in the literature are easy consequences of our work