Families of continuous retractions and function spaces
arXiv:1508.00467
Abstract
In this article, we mainly study certain families of continuous retractions (-skeletons) having certain rich properties. By using monotonically retractable spaces we solve a question posed by R. Z. Buzyakova in \cite{buz} concerning the Alexandroff duplicate of a space. Certainly, it is shown that if the space has a full -skeleton, then its Alexandroff duplicate also has a full -skeleton and, in a very similar way, it is proved that the Alexandroff duplicate of a monotonically retractable space is monotonically retractable. The notion of -skeleton is introduced and it is shown that every compact subspace of is Corson when has a full -skeleton. The notion of strong -skeleton is also introduced to answer a question suggested by F. Casarrubias-Segura and R. Rojas-Hernández in their paper \cite{cas-rjs} by establishing that a space is monotonically Sokolov iff it is monotonically -monolithic and has a strong -skeleton. The techniques used here allow us to give a topological proof of a result of I. Bandlow \cite{ban} who used elementary submodels and uniform spaces.