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Title

Dugundji extenders and retracts on generalized ordered spaces

Authors 1, 2,

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, U.S.A.
  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Shimane University, Matsue, Shimane, 690 Japan

Abstract

For a subspace A of a space X, a linear extender φ:C(A) → C(X) is called an Lch-extender (resp. Lh-extender) if φ(f)[X] is included in the convex hull (resp. closed convex hull) of f[A] for each f ∈ C(A). Consider the following conditions (i)-(vii) for a closed subset A of a GO-space X: (i) A is a retract of X; (ii) A is a retract of the union of A and all clopen convex components of X\A; (iii) there is a continuous Lch-extender φ:C(A × Y) → C(X × Y), with respect to both the compact-open topology and the pointwise convergence topology, for each space Y; (iv) A × Y is C*-embedded in X × Y for each space Y; (v) there is a continuous linear extender φ:Ck(A)Cp(X); (vi) there is an Lch-extender φ:C(A) → C(X); and (vii) there is an Lh-extender φ:C(A) → C(X). We prove that these conditions are related as follows: (i)⇒(ii)⇔(iii)⇔(iv)⇔(v)⇒(vi)⇒(vii). If A is paracompact and the cellularity of A is nonmeasurable, then (ii)-(vii) are equivalent. If there is no connected subset of X which meets distinct convex components of A, then (ii) implies (i). We show that van Douwen's example of a separable GO-space satisfies none of the above conditions, which answers questions of Heath-Lutzer [9], van Douwen [1] and Hattori [8].

Keywords

Dugundji extension property, linear extender, π-embedding, retract, measurable cardinal, generalized ordered space, perfectly normal, product

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Pages:
147-164
Main language of publication
English
Received
1997-07-02
Accepted
1998-05-04
Published
1998
Exact and natural sciences