Cliquishness and Quasicontinuity of Two-Variable Maps
AbstractWe study the existence of continuity points for mappingswhose x-sectionsare fragmentable and y-sectionsare quasicontinuous, where X is a Baire space and Z is a metric space. For the factor Y, we consider two infinite “pointpicking” games G1(y) and G2(y) defined respectively for each y ∈ Y as follows: in the n-th inning, Player I gives a dense set Dn⊂ Y, respectively, a dense open set Dn⊂ Y. Then Player II picks a point yn∈ Dn; II wins if y is in the closure of {yn: n ∈ N}, otherwise I wins. It is shown that (i) f is cliquish if II has a winning strategy in G1(y) for every y ∈ Y, and (ii) f is quasicontinuous if the x-sections of f are continuous and the set of y ∈ Y such that II has a winning strategy in G2(y) is dense in Y. Item (i) extends substantially a result of Debs and item (ii) indicates that the problem of Talagrand on separately continuous maps has a positive answer for a wide class of “small” compact spaces.