Almost disjoint families and property (a)

Paul Szeptycki; Jerry Vaughan

Fundamenta Mathematicae (1998)

  • Volume: 158, Issue: 3, page 229-240
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

Abstract

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We consider the question: when does a Ψ-space satisfy property (a)? We show that if | A | < p then the Ψ-space Ψ(A) satisfies property (a), but in some Cohen models the negation of CH holds and every uncountable Ψ-space fails to satisfy property (a). We also show that in a model of Fleissner and Miller there exists a Ψ-space of cardinality p which has property (a). We extend a theorem of Matveev relating the existence of certain closed discrete subsets with the failure of property (a).

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Szeptycki, Paul, and Vaughan, Jerry. "Almost disjoint families and property (a)." Fundamenta Mathematicae 158.3 (1998): 229-240. <http://eudml.org/doc/212313>.

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