Main Properties
Assume that is a compact locally connected Hausdorff space. The following statements hold:
¤ every size function is a non-decreasing function in the variable and a non-increasing function in the variable .
¤ every size function is locally right-constant in both its variables.
¤ for every, is finite.
¤ for every and every, .
¤ for every and every, equals the number of connected components of on which the minimum value of is smaller than or equal to .
If we also assume that is a smooth closed manifold and is a -function, the following useful property holds:
¤ in order that is a discontinuity point for it is necessary that either or or both are critical values for .
A strong link between the concept of size function and the concept of natural pseudodistance between the size pairs exists ,
¤ if then .
The previous result gives an easy way to get lower bounds for the natural pseudodistance and is one of the main motivation to introduce the concept of size function.
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