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IJMMS 26:12 (2001) 745–751 PII. S0161171201005889 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. COUNTABLY I -COMPACT SPACES BASSAM AL-NASHEF (Received 22 May 2000) Abstract. We introduce the class of countably I -compact spaces as a proper subclass of countably S -closed spaces. A topological space (X,T ) is called countably I -compact if every countable cover of X by regular closed subsets contains a finite subfamily whose interiors cover X . It is shown that a space is countably I -compact if and only if it is ex- tremally disconnected and countably S -closed. Other characterizations are given in terms of covers by semiopen subsets and other types of subsets. We also show that countable I -compactness is invariant under almost open semi-continuous surjections. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 54D20, 54G05. 1. Introduction. A topological space (X,T ) is called S -closed by Thompson [8] if every cover of X by semiopen subsets contains a finite subfamily whose union is dense in (X,T ). Cameron [1] showed that (X,T ) is S -closed if and only if every cover of X by regular closed sets has a finite subcover (accordingly, S -closed spaces are called rc-compact). A topological space (X,T ) is called I -compact by Cameron [2] if every cover of X by regular closed sets contains a finite subfamily whose interiors cover X . I -compact spaces were further studied by Sivaraj in [7]. In [3] the class of countably S -closed spaces was introduced and studied. A space (X,T ) is called countably S -closed if every countable cover of X by regular closed subsets has a finite subcover for X . It was studied further in [5], under the name countably rc-compact. In the present paper, after the preliminaries in