Abstract. Nasef and Noiri (1997) introduced and investigated the class of almost precontinuous functions. In this paper, we further investigate some properties of these functions.Keywords and phrases. Preopen, preclosed, preboundary, strongly compact, almost precontinuous, strongly prenormal.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 54C10; Secondary 54C08. Singal and Singal [24] introduced the notion of almost continuity. Feeble continuity was introduced by Maheshwari et al. [8]. As a generalization of almost continuity and feeble continuity, Maheshwari et al. [7] introduced the notion of almost feeble continuity. Nasef and Noiri [12] introduced a new class of functions called almost precontinuous functions. They showed that almost precontinuity is a generalization of each of almost feeble continuity and almost α-continuity [17].
Introduction.The purpose of this paper is to investigate some more properties of almost precontinuous functions. It turns out that almost precontinuity is stronger than almost weak continuity introduced by Jankovic [5]. The intersection of all preclosed sets containing a subset A is called the preclosure [2] of A and is denoted by Pcl(A). The preinterior of A is the union of all preopen sets of X contained in A. The family of all preopen sets of X will be denoted by PO(X). For a point x of X, we put PO(X,
PreliminariesIf f is almost continuous at every point of X, then it is called almost continuous. If f is almost precontinuous at every point of X, then it is called almost precontinuous. Example 2.10. Let X = {a, b, c, d} and τ = {X, ∅, {b}, {c}, {a, b}, {b, c}, {a, b, c}, {b, c, d}} We have the following result. Now suppose that X is submaximal. Let x be a point in X and V any regular open set containing f (x). Since X is submaximal, every preopen set of X is open [22, Theorem 4]. If we set Ᏺ = PO(X, x), then Ᏺ will be a filter base which p-converges to x. So there exists U in Ᏺ such that f (U) ⊂ V . This completes the proof.The following corollary is suggested by the referee. If f is w.α.c. and g is a.p.c., then the x) by Lemma 3.9 and O ∩ E = ∅. Therefore, we obtain x ∉ Pcl(E). This shows that E is preclosed in X.
Corollary 3.11 (Popa [19]). Let f ,g : X → Y be functions and Y Hausdorff. If f is continuous and g is precontinuous, then the setTherefore, we obtain (x 1 ,x 2 ) ∈ Pcl(E). This shows that E is preclosed in X 1 × X 2 .
Corollary 3.13. If Y is Hausdorff and f : X → Y is an a.p.c. function, then the setProof. By setting X = X 1 = X 2 and g = f in Theorem 3.12, the result follows. We introduce the following concept.