Paracompactness with respect to an ideal

An ideal on a set X is a nonempty collection of subsets of X closed under the operations of subset and finite union. Given a topological space X and an ideal ℐ of subsets of X, X is defined to be ℐ-paracompact if every open cover of the space admits a locally finite open refinement which is a cover...

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Main Authors: T. R. Hamlett, David Rose, Dragan Janković
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1997-01-01
Series:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171297000598
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Summary:An ideal on a set X is a nonempty collection of subsets of X closed under the operations of subset and finite union. Given a topological space X and an ideal ℐ of subsets of X, X is defined to be ℐ-paracompact if every open cover of the space admits a locally finite open refinement which is a cover for all of X except for a set in ℐ. Basic results are investigated, particularly with regard to the ℐ- paracompactness of two associated topologies generated by sets of the form U−I where U is open and I∈ℐ and ⋃ {U|U is open and U−A∈ℐ, for some open set A}. Preservation of ℐ-paracompactness by functions, subsets, and products is investigated. Important special cases of ℐ-paracompact spaces are the usual paracompact spaces and the almost paracompact spaces of Singal and Arya [On m-paracompact spaces, Math. Ann., 181 (1969), 119-133].
ISSN:0161-1712
1687-0425