Talk:Shrinking space

As far as I know in no common textbook on topology the term "shrinking space" is in use. Conversely, the theory of locally convex spaces uses this term in connection with spaces of a specific type. Read more: H. Jarchow, "Locally  convex  spaces" , Teubner (1981) Schojoha (talk) 17:10, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Metacompact and normal is Shrinking?
"Thus, every normal metacompact space is a shrinking space. In particular, every paracompact space is a shrinking space." I am not sure whether these two statements are correct. As for the second statement, a paracompact space need not be normal (paracompact does not include the Hausdorff-property in Wikipedia!). If one adds the Hausdorff-property (or more generally the preregularity), this becomes true. EDIT: The first statement is now clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.225.129.103 (talk) 15:43, 8 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree, the claim that "every paracompact space is a shrinking space" is wrong as per the definition of paracompactness on Wikipedia. (The correct hypothesis should be "paracompact Hausdorff space", see e.g. Lemma 41.6 of Munkres' Topology.) Kphoek (talk) 18:04, 22 May 2022 (UTC)