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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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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 new small Dowker space

Joint work with Roy Shalev and Stevo Todorcevic. Abstract. It is proved that if there exists a Luzin set, or if either the stick principle or (b) hold, then an instance of the guessing principle AD holds at the … Continue reading

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A guessing principle from a Souslin tree, with applications to topology

Joint work with Roy Shalev. Abstract. We introduce a new combinatorial principle which we call AD. This principle asserts the existence of a certain multi-ladder system with guessing and almost-disjointness features, and is shown to be sufficient for carrying out … Continue reading

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On topological spaces of singular density and minimal weight

Abstract: We introduce a weakening of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis, which we will refer to as the Prevalent Singular cardinals Hypothesis (PSH), and show it implies that every topological space of density and weight ω1 is not hereditarily Lindelöf. The assumption … Continue reading

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A topological reflection principle equivalent to Shelah’s strong hypothesis

Abstract: We notice that Shelah’s Strong Hypothesis (SSH) is equivalent to the following reflection principle: Suppose X is an (infinite) first-countable space whose density is a regular cardinal, κ. If every separable subspace of X is of cardinality at most … Continue reading

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