A characterization for paracompactness (Q752529)

The authors introduce the notion of B(P,\(\lambda\))-refinability and use this idea to obtain characterizations for paracompact, subparacompact, metacompact, \(\theta\)-refinable, collectionwise normal, collectionwise subnormal and strong-collectionwise subnormal spaces [ibid. 65, No 7, 245-248, 249-252 (1989; Zbl 0702.54015, Zbl 0702.54016)]. In this paper more general results are obtained in this class of spaces. The properties P considered here are discreteness (D) and local finiteness (LF).