\(I\)-Lindelöf spaces (Q1777693)

Summary: We define a space \( (X,T)\) to be \(I\)-Lindelöf if every cover \(\mathcal{A}\) of \(X\) by regular closed subsets of the space \( (X,T)\) contains a countable subfamily \(\mathcal{A} ^\prime\) such that \(X=\bigcup \{\iint(A):A\in \mathcal{A}^{\prime}\}\). We provide several characterizations of \(I\)-Lindelöf spaces and relate them to some other previously known classes of spaces, for example, rc-Lindelöf, nearly Lindelöf, and so forth. Our study here of \(I\)-Lindelöf spaces also deals with operations on \(I\)-Lindelöf spaces and, in its last part, investigates images and inverse images of \(I\)-Lindelöf spaces under some considered types of functions.