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Non-Extendability of Bounded Continuous Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ronnie Levy
Ronnie Levy*
Affiliation:
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
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If X is a dense subspace of Y, much is known about the question of when every bounded continuous real-valued function on X extends to a continuous function on Y. Indeed, this is one of the central topics of [5]. In this paper we are interested in the opposite question: When are there continuous bounded real-valued functions on X which extend to no point of Y – X? (Of course, we cannot hope that every function on X fails to extend since the restrictions to X of continuous functions on Y extend to Y.) In this paper, we show that if Y is a compact metric space and if X is a dense subset of Y, then X admits a bounded continuous function which extends to no point of Y – X if and only if X is completely metrizable. We also show that for certain spaces Y and dense subsets X, the set of bounded functions on X which extend to a point of Y – X form a first category subset of C*(X).

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , April 1980 , pp. 867 - 879
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1980

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