Author Archives: Assaf Rinot

May the successor of a singular cardinal be Jonsson?

Abstract: We collect necessary conditions for the successor of a singular cardinal to be Jónsson.

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Perspectives on Set Theory, November 2023

I gave an invited talk at the Perspectives on Set Theory conference, November 2023. Talk Title: May the successor of a singular cardinal be Jónsson? Abstract: We’ll survey what’s known about the question in the title and collect ten open … Continue reading

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Diamond on ladder systems and countably metacompact topological spaces

Joint work with Rodrigo Rey Carvalho and Tanmay Inamdar. Abstract. Leiderman and Szeptycki proved that a single Cohen real introduces a ladder system L over 1 for which the space XL is not a Δ-space. They asked whether there is … Continue reading

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The vanishing levels of a tree

Joint work with Shira Yadai and Zhixing You. Abstract. We initiate the study of the spectrum of sets that can be realized as the vanishing levels V(T) of a normal κ-tree T. This is an invariant in the … Continue reading

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Full Souslin trees at small cardinals

Joint work with Shira Yadai and Zhixing You. Abstract. A κ-tree is full if each of its limit levels omits no more than one potential branch. Kunen asked whether a full κ-Souslin tree may consistently exist. Shelah gave an affirmative … Continue reading

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A counterexample related to a theorem of Komjáth and Weiss

Joint work with Rodrigo Rey Carvalho. Abstract. In a paper from 1987, Komjath and Weiss proved that for every regular topological space X of character less than b, if X(top ω+1)ω1, then X(top α)ω1 for all α<ω1. In addition, … Continue reading

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A Shelah group in ZFC

Joint work with Márk Poór. Abstract. In a paper from 1980, Shelah constructed an uncountable group all of whose proper subgroups are countable. Assuming the continuum hypothesis, he constructed an uncountable group G that moreover admits an integer n satisfying … Continue reading

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Gdańsk Logic Conference, May 2023

I gave an invited talk at the first Gdańsk Logic Conference, May 2023. Talk Title: Was Ulam right? Abstract: An Ulam matrix is one of the earliest gems of infinite combinatorics. Around the same time of its discovery, another Polish … Continue reading

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A series of lectures on Club_AD, February–March 2023

As part of the Thematic Program on Set Theoretic Methods in Algebra, Dynamics and Geometry (Fields Institute, January–June, 2023), Spencer Unger and I delivered a Graduate Course on Set Theory, Algebra and Analysis. My part of the course was a … Continue reading

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Winter School in Abstract Analysis, January 2023

I gave a 3-lecture tutorial at the Winter School in Abstract Analysis in Steken, January 2023. Title: Club guessing Abstract. Club guessing principles were introduced by Shelah as a weakening of Jensen’s diamond. Most spectacularly, they were used to prove … Continue reading

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