In mathematics, in the realm of topology, a paranormal space (Nyikos 1984) is a topological space in which every countable discrete collection of closed sets has a locally finite open expansion.
See also Collectionwise normal space – Property of topological spaces stronger than normality Locally normal space Monotonically normal space – Property of topological spaces stronger than normality Normal space – Type of topological space – a topological space in which every two disjoint closed sets have disjoint open neighborhoods Paracompact space – Topological space which is a generalization of certain compact spaces – a topological space in which every open cover admits an open locally finite refinement Separation axiom – Axioms in topology defining notions of "separation"
References
Nyikos (1984), "Problem Section: Problem B. 25", Top. Proc., 9 Smith, Kerry D.; Szeptycki, Paul J. (2000), "Paranormal spaces under ◊*", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 128 (3): 903–908, doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05032-7, ISSN 0002-9939, MR 1622981