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Fréchet Uniform Box Products

The uniform box product was introduced by Scott Williams in 2001, but very little was done with it until the recent (2010 and 2012) [B1], [H1] dissertations of Jocelyn Bell and Jeffrey Hankins. Their results had to do with two questions that Williams posed a decade earlier: whether the uniform box product of compact spaces is normal, and whether it is paracompact. Hankins answered the latter qu...

Strongly base-paracompact spaces

A space X is said to be strongly base-paracompact if there is a basis B for X with |B| = w(X) such that every open cover of X has a star-finite open refinement by members of B. Strongly paracompact spaces which are strongly base-paracompact are studied. Strongly base-paracompact spaces are shown have a family of functions F with cardinality equal to the weight such that every open cover has a l...

Topology Proceedings 1 (1976) pp. 141-146: IS Box^omega (omega + 1) PARACOMPACT?

A Note on Paracompact Spaces

Let us quickly recall the definitions of the terms which are used in the statement of Theorem 1, and which will be used throughout this paper. Let X be a topological space. A collection <R of subsets of X is called open (resp. closed) if every element of "R. is open (resp. closed) in X. A covering of X is a collection of subsets of X whose union is X; observe that in this paper a covering need ...

Separation in Countably Paracompact Spaces

We study the question "Are discrete families of points separated in countably paracompact spaces?" in the class of first countable spaces and the class of separable spaces. Two of the main directions of research in general topology in the last thirty years have been the work of Jones, Bing, Tall, Fleissner, Nyikos and others motivated by the normal Moore space problem (when are discrete familie...