I-Lindelof spaces

We define a space (X,T) to be I-Lindelof if every cover of X by regular closed subsets of the space (X,T) contains a countable subfamily ′ such that X = {int(A) : A ∈ ′}. We provide several characterizations of I-Lindelof spaces and relate them to some other previously known classes of spaces, for example, rc-Lindelof, nearly Lindelof, and so forth. Our study here of I-Lindelof spaces also deals with operations on I-Lindelof spaces and, in its last part, investigates images and inverse images of I-Lindelof spaces under some considered types of functions.