Solution of a problem of Ulam on countable sequences of sets
Chad, Knight & Suabedissen [Fund. Math. 203 (2009)] recently proved, assuming CH, that there is a 2-point set included in the union of countably many concentric circles. This result is obtained here without any additional set-theoretic hypotheses.
We apply techniques due to Sargsyan to reduce the consistency strength of the assumptions used to establish an indestructibility theorem for supercompactness. We then show how these and additional techniques due to Sargsyan may be employed to establish an equiconsistency for a related indestructibility theorem for strongness.
For ordered (= partially ordered) sets we introduce certain cardinal characteristics of them (some of those are known). We show that these characteristics—with one exception—coincide.
We give an equivalent, but simpler formulation of the axiom SEP, which was introduced in [9] in order to capture some of the combinatorial behaviour of models of set theory obtained by adding Cohen reals to a model of CH. Our formulation shows that many of the consequences of the weak Freese-Nation property of 𝒫(ω) studied in [6] already follow from SEP. We show that it is consistent that SEP holds while 𝒫(ω) fails to have the (ℵ₁,ℵ ₀)-ideal property introduced in [2]. This answers a question...
We prove a version of the Ramsey theorem for partitions of (increasing) n-tuples. We derive this result from a version of König's infinity lemma for ξ-large trees. Here ξ < ε₀ and the notion of largeness is in the sense of Hardy hierarchy.
We introduce infinite Boolean functions and investigate some of their properties.
If X is a compact metric space of dimension n, then K(X), the n- dimensional kernel of X, is the union of all n-dimensional Cantor manifolds in X. Aleksandrov raised the problem of what the descriptive complexity of K(X) could be. A straightforward analysis shows that if X is an n-dimensional complete separable metric space, then K(X) is a or PCA set. We show (a) there is an n-dimensional continuum X in for which K(X) is a complete set. In particular, ; K(X) is coanalytic but is not an analytic...