Motivated by an application to the unconditional basic sequence problem appearing in our previous paper, we introduce analogues of the Laver ideal on ℵ₂ living on index sets of the form ${\left[{\aleph }_k\right]}^{\omega }$ and use this to refine the well-known high-dimensional polarized partition relation for ${\aleph }_{\omega }$ of Shelah.

Let κ > ω be a regular cardinal and λ > κ a cardinal. The following partition property is shown to be consistent relative to a supercompact cardinal: For any $f:{\cup }_{n<\omega }{\left[X\right]}_{\subset }^n\to \gamma$ with $X\subset P_{\kappa }\lambda$ unbounded and 1 < γ < κ there is an unbounded Y ∪ X with $|f^{\text{'}\text{'}}{\left[Y\right]}_{\subset }^n|=1$ for any n < ω.

By an ${\omega }_1$- tree we mean a tree of power ${\omega }_1$ and height ${\omega }_1$. Under CH and $2^{{\omega }_1}>{\omega }_2$ we call an ${\omega }_1$-tree a Jech-Kunen tree if it has κ-many branches for some κ strictly between ${\omega }_1$ and $2^{{\omega }_1}$. In this paper we prove that, assuming the existence of one inaccessible cardinal, (1) it is consistent with CH plus $2^{{\omega }_1}>{\omega }_2$ that there exist Kurepa trees and there are no Jech-Kunen trees, which answers a question of [Ji2], (2) it is consistent with CH plus $2^{{\omega }_1}={\omega }_4$ that there only exist Kurepa trees with ${\omega }_3$-many branches, which answers another...

We study a notion of potential isomorphism, where two structures are said to be potentially isomorphic if they are isomorphic in some generic extension that preserves stationary sets and does not add new sets of cardinality less than the cardinality of the models. We introduce the notion of weakly semi-proper trees, and note that there is a strong connection between the existence of potentially isomorphic models for a given complete theory and the existence of weakly semi-proper trees. ...

Les travaux récents de Woodin ont considérablement renouvelé la théorie des ensembles en lui apportant une intelligibilité globale et en restaurant son unité. Pour la première fois, ses résultats ouvrent une perspective réaliste de résoudre le problème du continu, et, à tout le moins, ils établissent le caractère irréfutablement signifiant et précis de celui-ci.

We show that in the presence of large cardinals proper forcings do not change the theory of $L\left(ℝ\right)$ with real and ordinal parameters and do not code any set of ordinals into the reals unless that set has already been so coded in the ground model.