Compact monotonically metacompact spaces are metrizable

Monotonically metacompact spaces were recently introduced as an extension of the concept of monotonically compact spaces. In this note we answer a question of Popvassilev, and Bennett, Hart, and Lutzer, by showing that every compact, Hausdorff, monotonically (countably) metacompact space is metrizable. We also show that certain countable spaces fail to be monotonically (countably) metacompact. (C) 2012 Elsevier By. All rights reserved.