Coincidence of the upper Vietoris topology and the Scott topology

Abstract: For a $T_0$ space $X$, let $\mk (X)$ be the poset of all compact saturated sets of $X$ with the reverse inclusion order. The space $X$ is said to have property Q if for any $K_1, K_2\in \mk (X)$, $K_2\ll K_1$ in $\mk (X)$ if{}f $K_2\subseteq \ii~!K_1$. In this paper, we give several connections among the well-filteredness of $X$, the sobriety of $X$, the local compactness of $X$, the core compactness of $X$, the property Q of $X$, the coincidence of the upper Vietoris topology and Scott topology on $\mk (X)$, and the continuity of $x\mapsto\ua x : X \longrightarrow \Sigma~!! \mk (X)$ (where $\Sigma~!! \mk (X)$ is the Scott space of $\mk (X)$). It is shown that for a well-filtered space $X$ for which its Smyth power space $P_S(X)$ is first-countable, the following three properties are equivalent: the local compactness of $X$, the core compactness of $X$ and the continuity of $\mk (X)$. It is also proved that for a first-countable $T_0$ space $X$ in which the set of minimal elements of $K$ is countable for any compact saturated subset $K$ of $X$, the Smyth power space $P_S(X)$ is first-countable. For the Alexandroff double circle $Y$, which is Hausdorff and first-countable, we show that its Smyth power space $P_S(Y)$ is not first-countable.