International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 20, Pages 1047-1056
doi:10.1155/S0161171204208249
Compact and extremally disconnected spaces
Department of Mathematics, Morgan State University, Baltimore 21251, MD, USA
Received 22 August 2002
Copyright © 2004 Bhamini M. P. Nayar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Viglino defined a Hausdorff topological space to be C-compact
if each closed subset of the space is an H-set in the sense of
Veličko. In this paper, we study the class of Hausdorff spaces
characterized by the property that each closed subset is an
S-set in the sense of Dickman and Krystock. Such spaces are
called C-s-compact. Recently, the notion of strongly
subclosed relation, introduced by Joseph, has been utilized to
characterize C-compact spaces as those with the property that
each function from the space to a Hausdorff space with a strongly
subclosed inverse is closed. Here, it is shown that
C-s-compact spaces are characterized by the property that
each function from the space to a Hausdorff space with a strongly
sub-semiclosed inverse is a closed function. It is established
that this class of spaces is the same as the class of Hausdorff,
compact, and extremally disconnected spaces. The class of
C-s-compact spaces is properly contained in the class of
C-compact spaces as well as in the class of S-closed spaces
of Thompson. In general, a compact space need not be
C-s-compact. The product of two C-s-compact spaces need
not be C-s-compact.