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Well-embedded type property for bounded functions

According to @Tyrone the term well-embedded set was first used in Measures on Metacompact Spaces by W. Moran. In the article Extensions of Zero-sets and of Real-valued Functions by R. Blair and A. ...
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What is this equivalence relation on topological spaces: there are bijective continuous maps in both directions

Consider the following equivalence relation on topological spaces: $X\sim Y$ $:\Longleftrightarrow$ there are bijective continuous maps $\phi:X\to Y$ and $\psi:Y\to X$. Note that there are no ...
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Is there a standard name for the following class of functions on non-Hausdorff manifolds?

Let $M$ be a (not necessarily Hausdorff) smooth manifold. Given an open chart $U\subset M$ and a compactly-supported smooth function $f:U\to\mathbb{R}$ on $U$, define $\widetilde{f}:M\to\mathbb{R}$ by ...
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A stronger version of paracompactness

Given a topological space $(X,\tau)$, recall that a cover $\mathcal{U}$ of $X$ is locally finite if for every point $x\in \mathcal{U}$ has a neighborhood $U$ that intersects finitely many elements of $...
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Name of a space with both a topology and a metric that are not compatible?

Let $(X,\tau,d)$ be a space where $\tau$ is a topology and $d$ is a metric, where the topology $\tau$ is not necessarily compatible with $d$. Is there a canonical name for such a structure (maybe ...
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What to call a continuous function with preimage preserving nowhere-density?

Currently I am reading some basic literature on descriptive set theory and boolean algebras. And this comes out a lot, for example in results like: Let $X$ and $Y$ be topological spaces, and $f:X \to ...
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Classification of limit points

Let $X$ be a subset of a topolgical space with no open points. Then $$\overline{X}=X_1\sqcup X_2\sqcup X_3\sqcup X_4\sqcup X_5$$ where $X_1$ are isolated points of $X$, $X_2$ are interior points, $X_3=...
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Equivalence relation induced by Kolmogorov quotients

Recall: given a (possibly non-$T_0$) topological space $X$, its Kolmogorov quotient $KX$ is the $T_0$ topological space formed by $X/\sim$ where $x\sim y$ if they are topologically indistinguishable. ...
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Name for topological spaces where "every point has a local base wellordered by reverse inclusion"?

There are many properties regarding local bases of a topological space, like first countable if every point has a countable local base. Is there a similar name for a space where "every point has a ...
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Reference request: A collection of topologies on $\mathbb{N}$ formed via series

First, some quick notation: for any series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$ whose terms are positive real numbers, and for any subset $M = \{m_1, m_2,...\} \subseteq \mathbb{N}$, we write $\sum_M a_n$ to mean ...
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A standard name for a function satisfying the intermediate value theorem?

Do you know any (standard) name for a function $f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$ having the following weak intermediate value property: $(*)$ for any connected subset $C\subset \mathbb R$ and points $a,b\...
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What is the (genuine) name for the Gutik hedgehog?

Working with non-regular topological semigroups, my collegue Oleg Gutik discovered a special space $H$ which we named Gutik's hedgehog. It is homeomorphic to the space $$H:=\{(0,0)\}\cup\{(\tfrac1n,0):...
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A generalized diagonal?

A simple question. Let $ f:X\to Y $ be a function and let $ E_f:=\{(x, y): f (x)=f (y)\}\subset X\times X $. What is the name of the set $ E(f) $? It would be nice to have some reference also. It ...
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Name for a topological space where every closed set contains a closed point

A coauthor and I have stumbled upon a useful topological property -- namely, we are interested in the property that every nonempty closed set contains a closed point. However, neither of us are ...
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