1. so-metrizable spaces and images of metric spaces
- Author
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Songlin Yang and Xun Ge
- Subjects
Pure mathematics ,General Mathematics ,MathematicsofComputing_GENERAL ,Mathematics::General Topology ,54e50 ,so-metrizable space ,54e40 ,54e45 ,54e35 ,Metric space ,Metrization theorem ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,QA1-939 ,σ-mapping ,so-open mapping ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,so-network ,compact-covering mapping ,Mathematics - Abstract
so-metrizable spaces are a class of important generalized metric spaces between metric spaces and s n sn -metrizable spaces where a space is called an so-metrizable space if it has a σ \sigma -locally finite so-network. As the further work that attaches to the celebrated Alexandrov conjecture, it is interesting to characterize so-metrizable spaces by images of metric spaces. This paper gives such characterizations for so-metrizable spaces. More precisely, this paper introduces so-open mappings and uses the “Pomomarev’s method” to prove that a space X X is an so-metrizable space if and only if it is an so-open, compact-covering, σ \sigma -image of a metric space, if and only if it is an so-open, σ \sigma -image of a metric space. In addition, it is shown that so-open mapping is a simplified form of s n sn -open mapping (resp. 2-sequence-covering mapping if the domain is metrizable). Results of this paper give some new characterizations of so-metrizable spaces and establish some equivalent relations among so-open mapping, s n sn -open mapping and 2-sequence-covering mapping, which further enrich and deepen generalized metric space theory.
- Published
- 2021