Paracompactness with respect to an ideal
An ideal on a setXis a nonempty collection of subsets ofXclosed under the operations of subset and finite union. Given a topological spaceXand an idealℐof subsets ofX,Xis defined to beℐ-paracompact if every open cover of the space admits a locally finite open refinement which is a cover for all ofXexcept for a set inℐ. Basic results are investigated, particularly with regard to theℐ- paracompactness of two associated topologies generated by sets of the formU−IwhereUis open andI∈ℐand⋃{U|Uis open andU−A∈ℐ, for some open setA}. Preservation ofℐ-paracompactness by functions, subsets, and products is investigated. Important special cases ofℐ-paracompact spaces are the usual paracompact spaces and the almost paracompact spaces of Singal and Arya [On m-paracompact spaces, Math. Ann., 181 (1969), 119-133].