Monotone partitions and almost partitions (Q471490)

A zero-dimensional space \(X\) is monotonically partition-Lindelöf ({\mathsf mpL}) if to each open cover \(\mathcal U\) of \(X\) one can assign a countable partition \(r(\mathcal U)\) into clopen sets so that \(r(\mathcal U)\) refines \(\mathcal U\) and also refines \(r(\mathcal V)\) whenever \(\mathcal U\) refines \(\mathcal V\). It is shown that a Lindelöf P-space of weight \(\omega_1\) is {\mathsf mpL}. A weak version, {\mathsf mwpL}, requires only the members of \(r(\mathcal U)\) are open and their union is dense in \(X\), with a hereditary version {\mathsf hmwpL}. Connections amongst these, and related, properties are explored. It is also shown that every space with countable \(\pi\)-weight, every ccc GO-space and every compact monotonically normal ccc space is {\mathsf hmwpL}.