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IJMMS 30:12 (2002) 717–725 PII. S0161171202109197 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CUT POINTS IN ABCOHESIVE, APOSYNDETIC, AND SEMI-LOCALLY CONNECTED SPACES DAVID A. JOHN and SHING S. SO Received 17 September 2001 In 1941, F. B. Jones introduced aposyndesis, which generalizes the concept of semi-local connectedness defined earlier by G. T. Whyburn (1942), in the study of continuum the- ory. Using Jones’s idea, D. A. John (1993) defined abcohesiveness as a generalization of aposyndesis and studied the A-sets in abcohesive spaces. In this paper, some properties of abcohesive spaces are studied and a number of results by B. Lehman (1976) and Whyburn (1942, 1968) are generalized; sufficient conditions for the existence of two nodal sets are established as well. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 54D05. 1. Aposyndetic and abcohesive spaces Definition 1.1. A space M is aposyndetic at a point p with respect to a point q if and only if there exists a closed connected set H such that p ∈ int (H) and H ⊆ M −{q }. The space M is aposyndetic at a point p if and only if it is aposyndetic at p with respect to q for each q in M −{p}. The space is aposyndetic if and only if it is aposyndetic at p for each p in M . A space M is abcohesive at a point p with respect to a point q if and only if there exists an open connected set U such that p ∈ U and U ⊆ M − {q }. The space M is abcohesive at a point p if and only if it is abcohesive at p with respect to q for each q in M − {p}. The space is abcohesive if and only if it is abcohesive at p for each p in M . John [2] showed that aposyndesis implies abcohesiveness and hence abcohesivness is also a generalization of semi-local connectedness. Besides the properties discussed in [2], the next three theorems s