Functional countability and exponential separability of product spaces and subspaces

Abstract

We investigate the behavior of functional countability and exponential separability in products and subspaces of topological spaces. We solve a problem of Tkachuk by showing that the product of functionally countable pseudocompact spaces is itself functionally countable. Solving another problem of Tkachuk, we show that it is independent of ZFC whether regular spaces which have all their subspaces functionally countable are hereditarily Lindel\"of. Finally, we prove that the $\sigma$-product of non-zero ordinals is exponentially separable, thereby extending a result of Kemoto and Szeptycki.