Cardinal inequalities involving the weak Rothberger and cellularity games

Abstract We prove several results in the theory of topological cardinal invariants involving the game-theoretic versions of the weak Lindelöf degree and of cellularity. One of them is related to Bell, Ginsburg and Woods’s 1978 question of whether every weakly Lindelöf regular first-countable space has cardinality at most continuum and another one is connected with Arhangel’skii’s 1970 question on the weak Lindelöf degree of the $$G_\delta $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>G</mml:mi> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> topology on a compact space. We provide a few application of our results, including some bounds on the cardinality of sequential and radial spaces. We finish with a series of counterexamples, which show the sharpness of our results and disprove a few natural conjectures about the impact of infinite games on topological cardinal invariants.