GENERALIZATIONS OF CLOSED FUNCTIONS IN SPACES WITH MINIMAL STRUCTURES
MARCELINA MOCANU âVasile Alecsandriâ University of BacÄu,
Department of Mathematics and Informatics,
Calea MÄrÄČeČti 157, BacÄu 600115, ROMANIA
e-mail: mmocanu@ub.ro
Noiri and Popa introduced and studied the notion of Mâclosed function between spaces with minimal structures, developing a unified theory of modifications of closedness such as Îąâclosedness, semi-closedness, preclosedness and βâclosedness. Using a new notion, that of almost M- closed function, we extend the characterizations of Mâclosed functions proved by Popa and Noiri to spaces endowed with minimal structures not necessarily closed under arbitrary unions. These minimal structures are useful beyond General Topol-ogy. For bijections between spaces with minimal structure it turns out that almost M- closedness is equivalent to almost Mâopenness, both being equivalent to the Mâcontinuity of the inverse function. Our main result generalizes a well-known theorem of Long and Herrington showing that θâopen sets in topological spaces are preserved by every function that is both open and closed.