On star covering properties related to countable compactness and pseudocompactness
We prove a number of results on star covering properties which may be regarded as either generalizations or specializations of topological properties related to the ones mentioned in the title of the paper. For instance, we give a new, entirely combinatorial proof of the fact that -spaces constructed from infinite almost disjoint families are not star-compact. By going a little further we conclude that if is a star-compact space within a certain class, then is neither first countable nor separable....