Baire spaces and the Wijsman topology

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2007-12-06
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Cao, J
Tomita, A
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AUT University
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In 1960s, when he studied Banach space geometry, R. Wijsman considered the weak topology on the collection of nonempty closed subsets of a metric space generated by the distance functionals viewed as functions of set argument. Nowadays, this topology is known as the Wijsman topology. Since then, there has been a considerable effort in exploring various completeness properties of this type of hyperspaces. For example, C. Constantini showed that the Wijsman hyperspace of a Polish space is Polish, and there exists a complete metric space whose Wijsman hyperspace fails to be Cech-complete. Motivated by these facts, it makes sense for us to investigate the Baireness of Wijsman hyperspaces. In this talk, I shall present some recent progress in this direction. In particular, I shall show that the Wijsman hyerspace of a metric hereditarily Baire space must be Baire. This result settles a problem posed by L. Zsilniszky at the 10th Prague Toposym in 2006.

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International Conference on Topology and its Applications, December 3-7, 2007
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