Baire and weakly Namioka spaces

Abstract

Recall that a Hausdorff space $X$ is said to be Namioka if for every compact (Hausdorff) space $Y$ and every metric space $Z$, every separately continuous function $f:X\times{Y}\rightarrow{Z}$ is continuous on $D\times{Y}$ for some dense $G_\delta$ subset $D$ of $X$. It is well known that in the class of all metrizable spaces, Namioka and Baire spaces coincide (Saint-Raymond, 1983). Further it is known that every completely regular Namioka space is Baire and that every separable Baire space is Namioka (Saint-Raymond, 1983). In our paper we study spaces $X$, we call them weakly Namioka, for which the conclusion of the theorem for Namioka spaces holds provided that the assumption of compactness of $Y$ is replaced by second countability of $Y$. We will prove that in the class of all completely regular separable spaces and in the class of all perfectly normal spaces, $X$ is Baire if and only if it is weakly Namioka.