On intersections of simply connected sets in the plane

Several authors have recently attempted to show that the intersection of three simply connected subcontinua of the plane is simply connected provided it is non-empty and the intersection of each two of the continua is path connected. In this note we give a very short complete proof of this fact. We also confirm a related conjecture of Karimov and Repovš

A continuous operator extending fuzzy ultrametrics

summary:We consider the problem of simultaneous extension of fuzzy ultrametrics defined on closed subsets of a complete fuzzy ultrametric space. We construct an extension operator that preserves the operation of pointwise minimum of fuzzy ultrametrics with common domain and an operation which is an analogue of multiplication by a constant defined for fuzzy ultrametrics. We prove that the restriction of the extension operator onto the set of continuous, partial fuzzy ultrametrics is continuous with respect to the Hausdorff metric topology