On scatteredly continuous maps between topological spaces

A map f : X --> Y between topological spaces is defined to be scatteredly continuous if for each subspace A subset of X the restriction f|A has a point of continuity. We show that for a function f : X --> Y from a perfectly paracompact hereditarily Baire Preiss-Simon space X into a regular space Y the scattered continuity of f is equivalent to (i) the weak discontinuity (for each subset A subset of X the set D(f|A) of discontinuity points of f|A is nowhere dense in A), (ii) the piecewise continuity (X can be written as a countable union of closed subsets on which f is continuous), (iii) the G(delta)-measurability (the preimage of each open set is of type G(delta)). Also under Martin Axiom, we construct a G(delta)-measurable map f : X Y between metrizable separable spaces, which is not piecewise continuous. This answers an old question of V. Vinokurov. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.