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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2011, Article ID 857278, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2011/857278 Research Article Decomposition of Topologies Which Characterize the Upper and Lower Semicontinuous Limits of Functions Agata Caserta Department of Mathematics, SUN, 81100 Caserta, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Agata Caserta, agata.caserta@unina2.it Received 20 June 2011; Accepted 23 August 2011 Academic Editor: Ljubisa Kocinac Copyright q 2011 Agata Caserta. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We present a decomposition of two topologies which characterize the upper and lower semicontinuity of the limit function to visualize their hidden and opposite roles with respect to the upper and lower semicontinuity and consequently the continuity of the limit. We show that from the statistical point of view there is an asymmetric role of the upper and lower decomposition of the pointwise convergence with respect to the upper and lower decomposition of the sticking convergence and the semicontinuity of the limit. This role is completely hidden if we use the whole pointwise convergence. Moreover, thanks to this mirror effect played by these decompositions, the statistical pointwise convergence of a sequence of continuous functions to a continuous function in one of the two symmetric topologies, which are the decomposition of the sticking topology, automatically ensures the convergence in the whole sticking topology. 1. Introduction Since the end of the nineteenth century several outstanding papers appeared to formulate a set of conditions, wh