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Selections, Paracompactness and Compactness

General Topology 2009-03-23 v1

Abstract

In the present paper, the Lindelof number and the degree of compactness of spaces and of the cozero-dimensional kernel of paracompact spaces are characterized in terms of selections of lower semi-continuous closed-valued mappings into complete metrizable (or discrete) spaces.

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@article{arxiv.0903.3514,
  title  = {Selections, Paracompactness and Compactness},
  author = {Mitrofan M. Choban and Ekaterina P. Mihaylova and Stoyan I. Nedev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3514},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 pages

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