The role of countable paracompactness for continuous selections avoiding extreme points (Q1002468)

A topological space \(X\) is called countably metacompact if every countable open cover of \(X\) is refined by a point-finite open cover of \(X\). The author shows that for a topological space \(X\) the following assertions are equivalent: 1) \(X\) is countably metacompact. 2) For every normal space \(Y\), a lower semicontinuous mapping \(\varphi: X\multimap Y\) with compact convex values with Card\(\varphi(x)>1\) for all \(x\in X\) admits a lower semicontinuous selection \(\phi:X \multimap Y\) with compact convex values such that \(\phi(x)\) does not contain an extreme point of \(\varphi(x)\) for each \(x\in X\). Similar characterizations are obtained for \(\lambda\)-collectionwise normal spaces and for almost \(\lambda\)-expandable normal spaces, where \(\lambda\) is an infinite cardinal number.