This paper relies on nested postulates of separate, linear and arc-continuity of functions to define analogous properties for sets that are weaker than the requirement that the set be open or closed. This allows three novel characterisations of open or closed sets under convexity or separate convexity postulates: the first pertains to separately convex sets, the second to convex sets and the third to arbitrary subsets of a finite-dimensional Euclidean space. By relying on these constructions, we also obtain new results on the relationship between separate and joint continuity of separately quasiconcave, or separately quasiconvex functions. We present examples to show that the sufficient conditions we offer cannot be dispensed with.

A space X is a D-space if, for every neighborhood assignment f there is a closed discrete set D such that f(D) = X. In this paper we give some necessary conditions and some sufficient conditions for a resolution of a topological space to be a D-space. In particular, if a space X is resolved at each x ∊ X into a D-space Yx by continuous mappings fx: X − {x} → Yx, then the resolution is a D-space if and only if {x} × Bd(Yx) is a D-space.

An ultrafilter completion is constructed for a nearness space. It is shown to preserve the Tl separation axiom. Characterizing conditions are given for it to be topological or for its topology to be compact. It is shown to have the simple extension topology and for a given Hausdorff space a compatible nearness structure is found for which its ultrafilter completion is homeomorphic to the Katetov H-closed extension.

A space Z is said to have the complete invariance property (CIP) provided that every nonempty closed subset of Z is the fixed point set of some continuous self-mapping of Z. In this paper it is shown that there exists a one-dimensional contractible planar continuum having CIP whose wedge with itself at a specified point is contractible, planar, and does not have CIP.