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A Note on Monotonically Metacompact Spaces

General Topology 2011-08-29 v1

Abstract

We show that any metacompact Moore space is monotonically metacompact and use that result to characterize monotone metacompactness in certain generalized ordered (GO)spaces. We show, for example, that a generalized ordered space with a sigma-closed-discrete dense subset is metrizable if and only if it is monotonically (countably) metacompact, that a monotonically (countably) metacompact GO-space is hereditarily paracompact, and that a locally countably compact GO-space is metrizable if and only if it is monotonically (countably) metacompact. We give an example of a non-metrizable LOTS that is monotonically metacompact, thereby answering a question posed by S. G. Popvassilev. We also give consistent examples showing that if there is a Souslin line, then there is one Souslin line that is monotonically countable metacompact, and another Souslin line that is not monotonically countably metacompact.

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@article{arxiv.0910.4106,
  title  = {A Note on Monotonically Metacompact Spaces},
  author = {Harold R. Bennett and Klaas Pieter Hart and David J. Lutzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4106},
  year   = {2011}
}
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