Monotone insertion of semi-continuous maps to ordered topological vector spaces (Q530206)

Let \(X\) be a topological space and \(g, h\) be non-continuous, real-valued functions defined on \(X\) and satisfying \(g(x) \leqslant h(x)\) for all \(x \in X\); the problem of \textit{monotone insertions} (that is, the problem of giving conditions on \(X\) such that, in the described context, there is always a continuous real-valued continuous function \(f\) such that \(g(x) \leqslant f(x) \leqslant h(x)\) for all \(x \in X\)) was extensively investigated since the 1920's. Previous results (due to a number of authors) include characterizations of monotone countably metacompact spaces and monotone countably paracompact spaces in terms of monotone insertions of real-valued continuous functions. In the paper under review, the authors investigate monotone insertions of semi-continuous maps with values in some ordered topological vector spaces and, during the process, generalize several previous results by providing new characterizations of stratifiable spaces, semi-stratifiable spaces, countably paracompact spaces, countably metacompact spaces, perfect spaces and perfectly normal spaces.