We construct three models containing exactly one supercompact cardinal in which level by level inequivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness holds. In the first two models, below the supercompact cardinal κ, there is a non-supercompact strongly compact cardinal. In the last model, any suitably defined ground model Easton function is realized.
Some relatives of the Juhász Club Principle are introduced and studied in the presence of CH. In particular, it is shown that a slight strengthening of this principle implies the existence of a Suslin tree in the presence of CH.
I prove that the statement that “every linear order of size can be embedded in ” is consistent with MA + ¬ wKH.
We force and construct a model in which GCH and level by level equivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness hold, along with certain additional “L-like” combinatorial principles. In particular, this model satisfies the following properties: (1) holds for every successor and Mahlo cardinal δ. (2) There is a stationary subset S of the least supercompact cardinal κ₀ such that for every δ ∈ S, holds and δ carries a gap 1 morass. (3) A weak version of holds for every infinite cardinal...
We work towards establishing that if it is consistent that there is a supercompact cardinal then it is consistent that every locally compact perfectly normal space is paracompact. At a crucial step we use some still unpublished results announced by Todorcevic. Modulo this and the large cardinal, this answers a question of S. Watson. Modulo these same unpublished results, we also show that if it is consistent that there is a supercompact cardinal, it is consistent that every locally compact space...
Given an uncountable cardinal κ with and regular, we show that there is a forcing that preserves cofinalities less than or equal to and forces the existence of a well-order of H(κ⁺) that is definable over ⟨H(κ⁺),∈⟩ by a Σ₁-formula with parameters. This shows that, in contrast to the case "κ = ω", the existence of a locally definable well-order of H(κ⁺) of low complexity is consistent with failures of the GCH at κ. We also show that the forcing mentioned above introduces a Bernstein subset...
Assuming the continuum hypothesis there is an inseparable sequence of length ω₁ that contains no Lusin subsequence, while if Martin's Axiom and ¬ CH are assumed then every inseparable sequence (of length ω₁) is a union of countably many Lusin subsequences.
Under every uncountable almost disjoint family is either anti-Luzin or has an uncountable Luzin subfamily. This fails under CH. Related properties are also investigated.
We study maximal almost disjoint (MAD) families of functions in that satisfy certain strong combinatorial properties. In particular, we study the notions of strongly and very MAD families of functions. We introduce and study a hierarchy of combinatorial properties lying between strong MADness and very MADness. Proving a conjecture of Brendle, we show that if , then there no very MAD families. We answer a question of Kastermans by constructing a strongly MAD family from = . Next, we study the...
In set theory without the axiom of choice (AC), we observe new relations of the following statements with weak choice principles.
We show that the existence of a non-trivial category base on a set of regular cardinality with each subset being Baire is equiconsistent to the existence of a measurable cardinal.
Assuming the existence of a P₂κ-hypermeasurable cardinal, we construct a model of Set Theory with a measurable cardinal κ such that and the group Sym(κ) of all permutations of κ cannot be written as the union of a chain of proper subgroups of length < κ⁺⁺. The proof involves iteration of a suitably defined uncountable version of the Miller forcing poset as well as the “tuning fork” argument introduced by the first author and K. Thompson [J. Symbolic Logic 73 (2008)].
We show that the existence of measurable envelopes of all subsets of ℝⁿ with respect to the d-dimensional Hausdorff measure (0 < d < n) is independent of ZFC. We also investigate the consistency of the existence of -measurable Sierpiński sets.