Hypertopologies on function spaces

The aim of this paper is to continue Naimpally’s seminal papers 16], 17], 18], i.e. we investigate topological properties of spaces which force the coincidence of convergences of functions associated with different hyperspace topologies. For example a metric spaceX is locally compact iff the topological convergence and the convergence induced by the Fell topology coincide onC(X,IR). Moreover, the proximal topology on the space of functions, not necessarily continuous, is studied in great detail.