Countable compactness of all higher powers

Determine whether there exists a topological space $X$ such that $X^\omega$ is countably compact but some higher cardinal power $X^\kappa$ is not countably compact.

Background

The paper proves that countable compactness of XωX^\omega implies bounded cliques on XX, and discusses examples separating this hypothesis from stronger forms of productive compactness under additional set-theoretic assumptions.

It remains unknown in ZFC whether countable compactness of the countable power can fail to extend to some higher power. Such a space would clarify the relationship between countable productivity and the stronger ultrafilter-compactness conditions considered in the paper.

References

As far as we know, the existence of a space $X$ with $X{\omega}$ countably compact but some higher power not so, is open in ZFC.

A Note on Compactness and Clique Size  (2608.13320 - Feldman et al., 13 Aug 2026) in Remark following Corollary 3, Section 3