On the relation between continuous functions in two different metric spaces

Abstract

Let the metric space $\mathbb R^n \setminus \sim$ be the metric space of $n$-sized unordered tuples of real numbers. In the following, it will be shown that if a function $\varphi: \mathbb R^m \to \mathbb R^n \setminus \sim$ is continuous, then there is a continuous function $f: \mathbb R^m \to \mathbb R^n$ such that a natural embedding of $f$ into $\mathbb R^n \setminus \sim$ is equal to $\varphi$. This theorem is wrong in the complex case. A counterexample is given in [1].