On Rančin's problem (Q2334018)

Recall that a space \(X\) is called \textit{sequential} if a set \(A \subset X\) is closed if and only if \(A\) does not contain any sequence converging outside of \(A\). A space \(X\) is called \textit{\(c\)-sequential} if for every closed set \(F \subset X\) and every non-isolated point \(x \in F\), the set \(F \setminus \{x\}\) contains a sequence converging to \(x\). Obviously every sequential space is \(c\)-sequential. Rančin's problem asks whether every compact \(c\)-sequential space is sequential. Since every compact \(c\)-sequential space has countable tightness, using Balogh's Theorem that every compact space of countable tightness is sequential under PFA, one gets that the answer to Rančin's problem is positive under PFA. In 1990 Malykhin announced he had a consistent counterexample to Rančin's problem, but never published it. In the paper under review, the authors build an example, under Jensen's axiom \(\diamondsuit\), of a compact \(c\)-sequential space which is not sequential. As a byproduct, their construction provides another interesting counterexample in topological convergence theory, a compact pseudoradial space which is not weakly Whyburn.