Homotopy properties of the space $OS_{f}(X)$

Kh. ~Kh. ~Kurbanov, A. ~Ya. ~Ishmetov

Published 2020-03-17Version 1

For a given compact Hausdorff space $X$, we construct the space $OS_{f}(X)$ of normed, order-preserving, weakly additive, positively homogeneous and semi-additive functionals (for brevity, semi-additive functionals) and it is proved that the hyperspace $\exp\, X$ of the space $X$ is a deformation retract of the constructed space. Further we show that the shapes of the spaces $OS_{f}(X)$ and $\exp\, X$ coincide. We establish that if the space $\exp\, X$ is contractible, then the space $OS_{f}(X)$ is also contractible.