Abstract. In this paper, we introduce and study upper and lower slightly /3-continuous multifunctions as a generalization of upper (lower) semicontinuous, upper (lower) a-continuous, upper (lower) precontinuous, upper (lower) quasi-continuous, upper (lower) 7-continuous, upper (lower) /^-continuous multifunctions and slightly /^-continuous functions. Some characterizations and several properties concerning upper (lower) slightly /3-continuous multifunctions are obtained. Furthermore, the relationships between upper (lower) slightly /3-continuous multifunctions and other related multifunctions are also discussed.
IntroductionContinuity of functions and various types of stronger and weaker forms of continuity of functions are the basic topics in the general topology. In the several branches of mathematics, many authors have researched various stronger and weaker forms of the continuity of functions. A great number of papers dealing with such functions have appeared, and many of them have been extended to the setting of multifunctions. Most of them in ordinary topology have been studied in the setting of multifunctions such as a-continuity [13]
PreliminariesIn this paper, spaces (X,T) and (Y, v) (or simply X and Y) always mean topological spaces on which no seperation axioms are assumed unless explicitly stated. For a subset A of (X, r), cl(A) and int(A) represent the closure of A with respect to r and the interior of A with respect to r, respectively. (X,x) (resp. U G SO(X, x), U G aO (X, x), U G (30(X, x), U G 7<9(X, x)) such that F(U) C V.
(cl(int(A))) (resp. A C cl(int(A)), A C int(cl(A)), A C cl(int(cl(A))), A C cl(int(A)) Uint(cl(A))).