Characterizations of generalized paracompact spaces
Some kinds of perfect spaces, including paracompact perfectly normal spaces and collectionwise normal perfect spaces, are characterized in terms of continuous selections avoiding supporting sets. A necessary and sufficient condition on a domain space for a selection theorem of E. Michael [Fund. Math. 47 (1959), 173-178] to hold is also obtained.
A topological space is said to be -Lindelöf [1] if every cover of by cozero sets of admits a countable subcover. In this paper, we obtain new characterizations and preservation theorems of -Lindelöf spaces.
We prove that a continuum X is tree-like (resp. circle-like, chainable) if and only if for each open cover 𝓤₄ = {U₁,U₂,U₃,U₄} of X there is a 𝓤₄-map f: X → Y onto a tree (resp. onto the circle, onto the interval). A continuum X is an acyclic curve if and only if for each open cover 𝓤₃ = {U₁,U₂,U₃} of X there is a 𝓤₃-map f: X → Y onto a tree (or the interval [0,1]).