# A note on Saleh’s paper ‘Almost continuity implies closure continuity’This note was written while Takashi Noiri was visiting the Department of Mathematics at University of Helsinki in August 1998. Research supported partially by the Japan - Scandinavia Sasakawa Foundation.

Recently, Saleh  claimed to have solved ‘a long standing open question’ in Topology; namely, he proved that every almost continuous function is closure continuous (= $`\theta `$-continuous). Unfortunately, this problem was settled long time ago and even a better result is known. Consider the following implications:

Cont. $``$ Almost cont. $``$ Almost $`\alpha `$-cont. $``$ $`\eta `$-cont. $``$ $`\theta `$-cont. $``$ Weakly cont.

The first two implications are trivial. In , the second author showed that every almost $`\alpha `$-continuous function is $`\eta `$-continuous. In , Dickman, Porter and Rubin proved that every $`\eta `$-continuous is $`\theta `$-continuous and hence weakly continuous.

Although $`\theta `$-continuous functions behave, in general, nicely, they may cause some unexpected problems. For example, if $`f:XY`$ is $`\theta `$-continuous, then $`f:Xf(X)`$ is not necessarily $`\theta `$-continuous. Also, the set of all points of continuity of $`f:XY`$ may be dense in $`X`$ and $`f`$ may not be weakly continuous in either of those points. We show that with the following example:

Example. Consider the classical Dirichlet function $`f:(,\tau _d)(,\tau _d)`$, where $``$ is the real line with the density topology $`\tau _d`$:

$$f(x)=\{\begin{array}{cc}1,\hfill & x,\hfill \\ 0,\hfill & \text{otherwise.}\hfill \end{array}$$

It is easily observed that $`f`$ is continuous at every irrational point (furthermore, $``$, the set of all irrationals is dense in the density topology). On the other hand $`f`$ is not weakly continuous (and hence not $`\theta `$-continuous) at any irrational point.

Department of Mathematics, University of Helsinki, PL 4, Yliopistonkatu 15, 00014 Helsinki, Finland, E-mail: dontchev@cc.helsinki.fi   
Department of Mathematics, Yatsushiro College of Technology, 2627 Hirayama shinmachi, Yatsushiro-shi, Kumamoto-ken, 866 Japan, E-mail: noiri@as.yatsushiro-nct.ac.jp