Sacks forcing collapses to
We shall prove that Sacks algebra is nowhere -distributive, which implies that Sacks forcing collapses to .
Some recent results on Cohen algebras
Stranger things about forcing without AC
Typically, set theorists reason about forcing constructions in the context of Zermelo--Fraenkel set theory (ZFC). We show that without the axiom of choice (AC), several simple properties of forcing posets fail to hold, one of which answers Miller's question from the work: Arnold W. Miller, {Long Borel hierarchies}, MLQ Math. Log. Q. {54} (2008), no. 3, 307--322.
Strolling through paradise
Sums of Darboux and continuous functions
It is shown that for every Darboux function F there is a non-constant continuous function f such that F + f is still Darboux. It is shown to be consistent - the model used is iterated Sacks forcing - that for every Darboux function F there is a nowhere constant continuous function f such that F + f is still Darboux. This answers questions raised in [5] where it is shown that in various models of set theory there are universally bad Darboux functions, Darboux functions whose sum with any nowhere...