A polarized partition relation and failure of GCH at singular strong limit
The main result is that for λ strong limit singular failing the continuum hypothesis (i.e. ), a polarized partition theorem holds.
The main result is that for λ strong limit singular failing the continuum hypothesis (i.e. ), a polarized partition theorem holds.
This article extends a paper of Abraham and Bonnet which generalised the famous Hausdorff characterisation of the class of scattered linear orders. They gave an inductively defined hierarchy that characterised the class of scattered posets which do not have infinite incomparability antichains (i.e. have the FAC). We define a larger inductive hierarchy κℌ* which characterises the closure of the class of all κ-well-founded linear orders under inversions, lexicographic sums and FAC weakenings. This...
Given a set of “indeterminates” and a field , an ideal in the polynomial ring is called conservative if it contains with any polynomial all of its monomials. The map yields an isomorphism between the power set and the complete lattice of all conservative prime ideals of . Moreover, the members of any system of finite character are in one-to-one correspondence with the conservative prime ideals contained in , and the maximal members of correspond to the maximal ideals contained in...
The note addresses briefly some reactions to a previous article “Deuteronomic Texts: Late Antiquity and the History of Mathematics”. In particular it looks at the question: if indeed any text must depend on previous texts, what makes the dependency of commentary and commentary-like text so special to justify my emphasis on this form of writing ? A suggestion is developed, trying to define Deuteronomic texts through their precise semiotics of intertextuality: in general, it is argued, intertextuality...
We present a proof of the Boolean Prime Ideal Theorem in a transitive model of ZF in which the Axiom of Choice does not hold. We omit the argument based on the full Halpern-Läuchli partition theorem and instead we reduce the proof to its elementary case.
The purpose of this article is to present a short model-theoretic proof of the valuation property for a polynomially bounded o-minimal theory T. The valuation property was conjectured by van den Dries, and proved for the polynomially bounded case by van den Dries-Speissegger and for the power bounded case by Tyne. Our proof uses the transfer principle for the theory (i.e. T with an extra unary symbol denoting a proper convex subring), which-together with quantifier elimination-is due to van den...
It is shown that in a finitely decidable equational class, the solvable radical of any finite subdirectly irreducible member is comparable to all congruences of the irreducible if the type of the monolith is 2. In the type 1 case we establish that the centralizer of the monolith is strongly solvable.