We consider generalised metrisability and cardinal invariants in quasitopological groups. We construct examples to show that some equalities of cardinal invariants in topological groups cannot be extended to quasitopological groups.

It is proved that every remainder of a nonlocally compact semitopological group $G$ is a Baire space if and only if $G$ is not Čech-complete, which improves a dichotomy theorem of topological groups by Arhangel’skiǐ [‘The Baire property in remainders of topological groups and other results’, Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin. 50(2) (2009), 273–279], and also gives a positive answer to a question of Lin and Lin [‘About remainders in compactifications of paratopological groups’, ArXiv: 1106.3836v1 [Math. GN] 20 June 2011]. We also show that for a nonlocally compact rectifiable space $G$ every remainder of $G$ is either Baire, or meagre and Lindelöf.

It is a question of Arhangel'skiĭ [1] (Problem 2) whether the identity ψ(G) = X(G) holds for every minimal Hausdorff topological group G = 〈G,u〉). (Here, as usual, ψ(G), the pseudocharacter of G, is the least cardinal number K for which there is such that and and x(G), the character of G,is the least cardinality of a local base at e for (〈G,u〉.) That 〈G, u〉 is minimal means that, if v is a Hausdorff topological group topology for G and v ⊂ u, then v = u.

In this paper, we give some conditions on G sufficient to ensure a positive response to Arhangel'skiï's question, and we offer an example which responds negatively to a question on minimal groups posed some years ago (cf. [6] (p. 107) and [4] (p. 259)).