On the Algebraic Complexity of Sets of Functions
Let G* denote a nonprincipal ultrapower of a group G. In 1986 M.~Boffa posed a question equivalent to the following one: if G does not satisfy a positive law, does G* contain a free nonabelian subsemigroup? We give the affirmative answer to this question in the large class of groups containing all residually finite and all soluble groups, in fact, all groups considered in traditional textbooks on group theory.
The cardinal invariants of are known to satisfy that . We prove that all inequalities can be strict. We also introduce a new upper bound for and show that it can be less than . The key method is to utilize finite support matrix iterations of ccc posets following paper Ultrafilters with small generating sets by A. Blass and S. Shelah (1989).
We study the Cantor-Bendixson rank of metabelian and virtually metabelian groups in the space of marked groups, and in particular, we exhibit a sequence of 2-generated, finitely presented, virtually metabelian groups of Cantor-Bendixson rank .
A probability theory on IFS-events has been constructed in [3], and axiomatically characterized in [4]. Here using a general system of axioms it is shown that any probability on IFS-events can be decomposed onto two probabilities on a Lukasiewicz tribe, hence some known results from [5], [6] can be used also for IFS-sets. As an application of the approach a variant of Central limit theorem is presented.
In the framework of ZF (Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory without the Axiom of Choice) we provide topological and Boolean-algebraic characterizations of the statements " is countably compact" and " is compact"
It is shown that for every 1 ≤ ξ < ω, two subspaces of the Schreier space generated by subsequences and , respectively, of the natural Schauder basis of are isomorphic if and only if and are equivalent. Further, admits a continuum of mutually incomparable complemented subspaces spanned by subsequences of . It is also shown that there exists a complemented subspace spanned by a block basis of , which is not isomorphic to a subspace generated by a subsequence of , for every ....