Incomparable families and maximal trees

G. Campero-Arena; J. Cancino; M. Hrušák; F. E. Miranda-Perea

Fundamenta Mathematicae (2016)

  • Volume: 234, Issue: 1, page 73-89
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

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We answer several questions of D. Monk by showing that every maximal family of pairwise incomparable elements of 𝒫(ω)/fin has size continuum, while it is consistent with the negation of the Continuum Hypothesis that there are maximal subtrees of both 𝒫(ω) and 𝒫(ω)/fin of size ω₁.

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G. Campero-Arena, et al. "Incomparable families and maximal trees." Fundamenta Mathematicae 234.1 (2016): 73-89. <http://eudml.org/doc/286456>.

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