On properties related to star countability

Abstract

We prove that a Hausdorff metaLindelöf weakly star countable space is feebly Lindelöf and a Hausdorff metacompact weakly star finite space is almost compact which partially answers a question of Alas and Wilson (2017) [2, Question 3.14]. We also obtain a normal example of a weakly star countable space which is neither almost star countable nor star Lindelöf without any set-theoretic assumptions, which answers a question implicitly asked by Song (2015) [13, Remark 2.8] and a question asked by Alas, Junqueira and Wilson (2011) [3, Question 4]. Under MA+¬CH, there even exists a normal weakly star countable Moore space which is not almost star countable. An example of a Tychonoff star compact and weakly star finite space which is not star countable is also given. Finally, we prove that every weakly star countable Hausdorff space with a rank 4-diagonal has cardinality at most 2ω.