On some questions about KC and related spaces

Abstract: Answering questions raised by O.T. Alas and R.G. Wilson, or by these two authors together with M.G. Tkachenko and V.V. Tkachuk, we show that every minimal SC space must be sequentially compact, and we produce the following examples: [–] a KC space which cannot be embedded in any compact KC space; [–] a countable KC space which does not admit any coarser compact KC topology; [–] a minimal Hausdorff space which is not a k-space. We also give an example of a compact KC space such that every nonempty open subset of it is dense, even if, as pointed out to us by the referee, a completely different construction carried out by E.K. van Douwen in 1993 leads to a space with the same properties. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]