A Note on Extending Locally Finite Collections

Abstract

Recently there has been a great deal of interest in extending refinements of locally finite and point finite collections on subsets of certain topological spaces. In particular the first named author showed that a subset S of a topological space X is P-embedded in X if and only if every locally finite cozero-set cover on S has a refinement that can be extended to a locally finite cozero-set cover of X. Since then many authors have studied similar types of embeddings (see [1], [2], [3], [4], [6], [8], [9], [10], [11], and [12]). Since the above characterization of P-embedding is equivalent to extending continuous pseudometrics from the subspace S up to the whole space X, it is natural to wonder when can a locally finite or a point finite open or cozero-set cover on S be extended to a locally finite or point-finite open or cozero-set cover on X.