Separate continuity, joint continuity, the Lindelöf property and p-spaces

AbstractIn this paper we prove a theorem more general than the following. Suppose that X is Čech-complete and Y is a closed subset of a product of a separable metric space with a compact Hausdorff space. Then for each separately continuous function f:X×Y→R there exists a residual set R in X such that f is jointly continuous at each point of R×Y. This confirms the suspicions of S. Mercourakis and S. Negrepontis from 1991