Remarks on star covering properties in pseudocompact spaces. (Q2856918)

Given a topological property \(\mathcal {P}\) one says that a space \(X\) is star \(\mathcal {P}\) if for every open cover \(\mathcal {U}\) of \(X\) there is a subspace \(A\) of \(X\) with property \(\mathcal {P}\) such that \(X=\operatorname {St}(A,\mathcal {U})\). The author provides three examples of pseudocompact spaces with varying star covering properties:NEWLINENEWLINE(1) star countably~compact but not star Lindelöf;NEWLINENEWLINE(2) star Lindelöf but not star countably~compact;NEWLINENEWLINE(3) star countably compact and star Lindelöf but not star compact.NEWLINENEWLINEThe first space is the subspace \((\beta D\times \mathfrak {c})\cup (D\times \{\mathfrak {c}\})\) of \(\beta D\times (\mathfrak {c}+1)\), where \(D\) is a discrete space of size \(\mathfrak {c}\) and the factor \(\mathfrak {c}+1\) has the order topology; the second space is a \(\psi \)-space from a maximal almost disjoint family of cardinality \(\mathfrak {c}\); the third space is a quotient of the first two, obtained via a bijection between \(D\times \{\mathfrak {c}\}\) and the MAD family.