In this paper $LJ$-spaces are introduced and studied. They are a common generalization of Lindelöf spaces and $J$-spaces researched by E. Michael. A space $X$ is called an $LJ$-space if, whenever $\{A,B\}$ is a closed cover of $X$ with $A\cap B$ compact, then $A$ or $B$ is Lindelöf. Semi-strong $LJ$-spaces and strong $LJ$-spaces are also defined and investigated. It is demonstrated that the three spaces are different and have interesting properties and behaviors.

Nous nous proposons de rendre à Émile Borel le mérite d’avoir considéré le premier un recouvrement d’un segment de droite par une suite infinie d’intervalles et prouvé que l’on peut en extraire un sous-recouvrement fini. L’appellation de théorème de Heine-Borel souvent donnée à ce résultat, en référence à un article de Heine de 1872, conduit à sous-estimer les différences avec le théorème sur la continuité uniforme (dont une première version peut être attribuée à Dirichlet, en 1854) ; cette dénomination...

Let X be a compact Hausdorff space and M a metric space. $E_0(X,M)$ is the set of f ∈ C(X,M) such that there is a dense set of points x ∈ X with f constant on some neighborhood of x. We describe some general classes of X for which $E_0(X,M)$ is all of C(X,M). These include βℕ, any nowhere separable LOTS, and any X such that forcing with the open subsets of X does not add reals. In the case where M is a Banach space, we discuss the properties of $E_0(X,M)$ as a normed linear space. We also build three first countable Eberlein...