On monotonically star countably compact spaces (Q6040574)

If \(\mathcal U\) is a cover of a topological space \(X\) and \(A\subset X\), then \(\text{St}(A,X)= \bigcup\{U: U\in \mathcal U\) and \(U\cap A\neq \emptyset\}\). A cover \(\mathcal V\) of the space \(X\) refines \(\mathcal U\) if, for every \(V\in \mathcal V\), there exists \(U\in \mathcal U\) such that \(V\subset U\). A space \(X\) is called monotonically star countably compact if it is possible to assign to every open cover \(\mathcal U\) of the space \(X\) a countably compact subspace \(s(\mathcal U) \subset X\) in such a way that \(\text{St}(s(\mathcal U), \mathcal U)= X\) and if \(\mathcal V\) refines \(\mathcal U\), then \(s(\mathcal U) \subset s(\mathcal V)\). It is established in the paper that monotonical star countable compactness is preserved by continuous images and every Tychonoff space embeds as a closed subspace in a monotonically star countably compact space. An example is given of a monotonically star countably compact space with a regular closed subspace which is not monotonically star countaby compact. It is also shown that a Tychonoff monotonically star countably compact space need not be monotonically star Lindelöf and the product of two countably compact spaces can fail to be monotonically star countably compact.