Continuous selections of multivalued mappings Duˇsan Repovˇsand Pavel V. Semenov Abstract This survey covers in our opinion the most important results in the theory of continuous selections of multivalued mappings (approximately) from 2002 through 2012. It extends and continues our previous such survey which appeared in Recent Progress in General Topology, II which was pub- lished in 2002. In comparison, our present survey considers more restricted and specific areas of mathematics. We remark that we do not consider the theory of selectors (i.e. continuous choices of elements from subsets of topo- logical spaces) since this topics is covered by another survey in this volume. 1 Preliminaries A selection of a given multivalued mapping F : X Y with nonempty values F (x) = , for every x X, is a mapping Φ : X → Y (in general, also multivalued)6 which∅ for every ∈x X, selects a nonempty→ subset Φ(x) F (x). When all Φ(x) are singletons, a selection∈ is called singlevalued and is identified⊂ with the usual singlevalued mapping f : X Y, f(x) = Φ(x). As a rule, we shall use small letters f, g, h, φ, ψ, ... for singlevalued→ { mappings} and capital letters F, G, H, Φ, Ψ, ... for multivalued mappings. There exist a great number of theorems on existence of selections in the category of topological spaces and their continuous (in various senses) map- arXiv:1401.2257v1 [math.GN] 10 Jan 2014 Duˇsan Repovˇs Faculty of Education and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, P. O. Box 2964, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1001 e-mail:
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