Ordinal remainders of classical ψ-spaces

Alan Dow; Jerry E. Vaughan

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A MAD Q-set

Arnold W. Miller (2003)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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A MAD (maximal almost disjoint) family is an infinite subset of the infinite subsets of ω = 0,1,2,... such that any two elements of intersect in a finite set and every infinite subset of ω meets some element of in an infinite set. A Q-set is an uncountable set of reals such that every subset is a relative $G_{δ}$ -set. It is shown that it is relatively consistent with ZFC that there exists a MAD family which is also a Q-set in the topology it inherits as a subset of $P (ω) = 2^{ω}$ .

Asymmetric tie-points and almost clopen subsets of $ℕ^{*}$

Alan S. Dow, Saharon Shelah (2018)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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A tie-point of compact space is analogous to a cut-point: the complement of the point falls apart into two relatively clopen non-compact subsets. We review some of the many consistency results that have depended on the construction of tie-points of $ℕ^{*}$ . One especially important application, due to Veličković, was to the existence of nontrivial involutions on $ℕ^{*}$ . A tie-point of $ℕ^{*}$ has been called symmetric if it is the unique fixed point of an involution. We define the notion of an almost...

Reflecting character and pseudocharacter

Lucia R. Junqueira, Alberto M. E. Levi (2015)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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We say that a cardinal function $φ$ reflects an infinite cardinal $κ$ , if given a topological space $X$ with $φ (X) \geq κ$ , there exists $Y \in {[X]}^{\leq κ}$ with $φ (Y) \geq κ$ . We investigate some problems, discussed by Hodel and Vaughan in Reflection theorems for cardinal functions, Topology Appl. 100 (2000), 47–66, and Juhász in Cardinal functions and reflection, Topology Atlas Preprint no. 445, 2000, related to the reflection for the cardinal functions character and pseudocharacter. Among other results, we present some new equivalences...

A solution to Comfort's question on the countable compactness of powers of a topological group

Artur Hideyuki Tomita (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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In 1990, Comfort asked Question 477 in the survey book “Open Problems in Topology”: Is there, for every (not necessarily infinite) cardinal number $α \leq 2^{}$ , a topological group G such that $G^{γ}$ is countably compact for all cardinals γ < α, but $G^{α}$ is not countably compact? Hart and van Mill showed in 1991 that α = 2 answers this question affirmatively under $M A_{c o u n t a b l e}$ . Recently, Tomita showed that every finite cardinal answers Comfort’s question in the affirmative, also from $M A_{c o u n t a b l e}$ . However, the question has...

Decidability and definability results related to the elementary theory of ordinal multiplication

Alexis Bès (2002)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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The elementary theory of ⟨α;×⟩, where α is an ordinal and × denotes ordinal multiplication, is decidable if and only if $α < ω^{ω}$ . Moreover if $|_{r}$ and $|_{l}$ respectively denote the right- and left-hand divisibility relation, we show that Th $⟨ ω^{ω^{ξ}} {; |}_{r} ⟩$ and Th $⟨ ω^{ξ} {; |}_{l} ⟩$ are decidable for every ordinal ξ. Further related definability results are also presented.

MAD families and $P$ -points

Salvador García-Ferreira, Paul J. Szeptycki (2007)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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The Katětov ordering of two maximal almost disjoint (MAD) families $𝒜$ and $ℬ$ is defined as follows: We say that $𝒜 \leq_{K} ℬ$ if there is a function $f : ω \to ω$ such that $f^{- 1} (A) \in ℐ (ℬ)$ for every $A \in ℐ (𝒜)$ . In [Garcia-Ferreira S., Hrušák M., Ordering MAD families a la Katětov, J. Symbolic Logic 68 (2003), 1337–1353] a MAD family is called $K$ -uniform if for every $X \in ℐ {(𝒜)}^{+}$ , we have that ${𝒜 |}_{X} \leq_{K} 𝒜$ . We prove that CH implies that for every $K$ -uniform MAD family $𝒜$ there is a $P$ -point $p$ of $ω^{*}$ such that the set of all Rudin-Keisler predecessors of $p$ is dense...

On ordinals accessible by infinitary languages

Saharon Shelah, Pauli Väisänen, Jouko Väänänen (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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Let λ be an infinite cardinal number. The ordinal number δ(λ) is the least ordinal γ such that if ϕ is any sentence of $L_{λ ⁺ ω}$ , with a unary predicate D and a binary predicate ≺, and ϕ has a model ℳ with $⟨ D^{ℳ}, ≺^{ℳ} ⟩$ a well-ordering of type ≥ γ, then ϕ has a model ℳ ’ where $⟨ D^{ℳ^{'}}, ≺^{ℳ^{'}} ⟩$ is non-well-ordered. One of the interesting properties of this number is that the Hanf number of $L_{λ ⁺ ω}$ is exactly $ℶ_{δ (λ)}$ . It was proved in [BK71] that if ℵ₀ < λ < κ $a r e r e g u l a r c a r d i n a l n u m b e r s, t h e n t h e r e i s a f o r c i n g e x t e n s i o n, p r e s e r v i n g c o f i n a l i t i e s, s u c h t h a t i n t h e e x t e n s i o n$ 2λ = κ $a n d δ (λ) < λ ⁺ ⁺ . W e i m p r o v e t h i s r e s u l t b y p r o v i n g t h e f o l l o w i n g : S u p p o s e ℵ ₀ < λ < θ \leq κ a r e c a r d i n a l n u m b e r s s u c h t h a t$ ∙ $λ^{< λ} = λ$ ; ∙ cf(θ) ≥ λ⁺ and $μ^{λ} < θ$ whenever μ < θ; ∙ $κ^{λ} = κ$ . Then there...

An observation on spaces with a zeroset diagonal

Wei-Feng Xuan (2020)

Mathematica Bohemica

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We say that a space $X$ has the discrete countable chain condition (DCCC for short) if every discrete family of nonempty open subsets of $X$ is countable. A space $X$ has a zeroset diagonal if there is a continuous mapping $f : X^{2} \to [0, 1]$ with $Δ_{X} = f^{- 1} (0)$ , where $Δ_{X} = {(x, x) : x \in X}$ . In this paper, we prove that every first countable DCCC space with a zeroset diagonal has cardinality at most $𝔠$ .

An Isomorphic Classification of $C (2^{} \times [0, α])$ Spaces

Elói Medina Galego (2009)

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mathematics

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We present an extension of the classical isomorphic classification of the Banach spaces C([0,α]) of all real continuous functions defined on the nondenumerable intervals of ordinals [0,α]. As an application, we establish the isomorphic classification of the Banach spaces $C (2^{} \times [0, α])$ of all real continuous functions defined on the compact spaces $2^{} \times [0, α]$ , the topological product of the Cantor cubes $2^{}$ with smaller than the first sequential cardinal, and intervals of ordinal numbers [0,α]. Consequently,...

Cardinal sequences of length < ω₂ under GCH

István Juhász, Lajos Soukup, William Weiss (2006)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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Let (α) denote the class of all cardinal sequences of length α associated with compact scattered spaces (or equivalently, superatomic Boolean algebras). Also put $_{λ} (α) = s \in (α) : s (0) = λ = m i n [s (β) : β < α]$ . We show that f ∈ (α) iff for some natural number n there are infinite cardinals $λ ₀ i > λ ₁ > . . . > λ_{n - 1}$ and ordinals $α ₀, . . ., α_{n - 1}$ such that $α = α ₀ + \dots + α_{n - 1}$ and $f = f ₀ ⏜ f ₁ ⏜ . . . ⏜ f_{n - 1}$ where each $f_{i} \in_{λ_{i}} (α_{i})$ . Under GCH we prove that if α < ω₂ then (i) $_{ω} (α) = s \in^{α} ω, ω ₁ : s (0) = ω$ ; (ii) if λ > cf(λ) = ω, $_{λ} (α) = s \in^{α} λ, λ ⁺ : s (0) = λ, s^{- 1} λ i s ω ₁ - c l o s e d i n α$ ; (iii) if cf(λ) = ω₁, $_{λ} (α) = s \in^{α} λ, λ ⁺ : s (0) = λ, s^{- 1} λ i s ω - c l o s e d a n d s u c c e s s o r - c l o s e d i n α$ ; (iv) if cf(λ) > ω₁, $_{λ} (α) =^{α} λ$ . This yields a complete characterization of the classes (α) for all...

Acknowledgment to the paper: “Another proof that a chain of non-empty $H$ -closed subspaces has a non-empty intersection’

J. Mioduszewski (1971)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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On isomorphism classes of $C (2^{} \oplus [0, α])$ spaces

Elói Medina Galego (2009)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We provide a complete isomorphic classification of the Banach spaces of continuous functions on the compact spaces $2^{} \oplus [0, α]$ , the topological sums of Cantor cubes $2^{}$ , with smaller than the first sequential cardinal, and intervals of ordinal numbers [0,α]. In particular, we prove that it is relatively consistent with ZFC that the only isomorphism classes of $C (2^{} \oplus [0, α])$ spaces with ≥ ℵ₀ and α ≥ ω₁ are the trivial ones. This result leads to some elementary questions on large cardinals.

Extension properties of Stone-Čech coronas and proper absolute extensors

A. Chigogidze (2013)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We characterize, in terms of X, the extensional dimension of the Stone-Čech corona βX∖X of a locally compact and Lindelöf space X. The non-Lindelöf case is also settled in terms of extending proper maps with values in $I^{τ} ∖ L$ , where L is a finite complex. Further, for a finite complex L, an uncountable cardinal τ and a $Z_{τ}$ -set X in the Tikhonov cube $I^{τ}$ we find a necessary and sufficient condition, in terms of $I^{τ} ∖ X$ , for X to be in the class AE([L]). We also introduce a concept of a proper absolute...

Another ⋄-like principle

Michael Hrušák (2001)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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A new ⋄-like principle $⋄_{}$ consistent with the negation of the Continuum Hypothesis is introduced and studied. It is shown that $\neg ⋄_{}$ is consistent with CH and that in many models of = ω₁ the principle $⋄_{}$ holds. As $⋄_{}$ implies that there is a MAD family of size ℵ₁ this provides a partial answer to a question of J. Roitman who asked whether = ω₁ implies = ω₁. It is proved that $⋄_{}$ holds in any model obtained by adding a single Laver real, answering a question of J. Brendle who asked whether = ω₁...

Special sets of reals and weak forms of normality on Isbell--Mrówka spaces

Vinicius de Oliveira Rodrigues, Victor dos Santos Ronchim, Paul J. Szeptycki (2023)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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We recall some classical results relating normality and some natural weakenings of normality in $Ψ$ -spaces over almost disjoint families of branches in the Cantor tree to special sets of reals like $Q$ -sets, $λ$ -sets and $σ$ -sets. We introduce a new class of special sets of reals which corresponds to the corresponding almost disjoint family of branches being $ℵ_{0}$ -separated. This new class fits between $λ$ -sets and perfectly meager sets. We also discuss conditions for an almost disjoint family $𝒜$ being...

Uncountable cardinals have the same monadic ∀₁¹ positive theory over large sets

Athanassios Tzouvaras (2004)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We show that uncountable cardinals are indistinguishable by sentences of the monadic second-order language of order of the form (∀X)ϕ(X) and (∃X)ϕ(X), for ϕ positive in X and containing no set-quantifiers, when the set variables range over large (= cofinal) subsets of the cardinals. This strengthens the result of Doner-Mostowski-Tarski [3] that (κ,∈), (λ,∈) are elementarily equivalent when κ, λ are uncountable. It follows that we can consistently postulate that the structures $(2^{κ}, {[2^{κ}]}^{> κ}, <)$ , $(2^{λ}, {[2^{λ}]}^{> λ}, <)$ are...