Category Archives: Expository

A Kurepa tree from diamond-plus

Recall that T is said to be a κ-Kurepa tree if T is a tree of height κ, whose levels Tα has size |α| for co-boundedly many α<κ, and such that the set of branches of T has size >κ. … Continue reading

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The S-space problem, and the cardinal invariant b

Recall that an S-space is a regular hereditarily separable topological space which is not hereditarily Lindelöf. In a previous post, we showed that such a space exists after adding a Cohen real. Here, we shall construct one from an arithmetic … Continue reading

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The S-space problem, and the cardinal invariant b

Recall that an S-space is a regular hereditarily separable topological space which is not hereditarily Lindelöf. In a previous post, we showed that such a space exists after adding a Cohen real. Here, we shall construct one from an arithmetic … Continue reading

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An S-space from a Cohen real

Recall that an S-space is a regular hereditarily separable topological space which is not hereditarily Lindelöf. In this post, we shall establish the consistency of the existence of such a space. Theorem (Roitman, 1979). Let C=(<ωω,) be the notion of … Continue reading

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Forcing with a Souslin tree makes p=ω1

I was meaning to include a proof of Farah’s lemma in my previous post, but then I realized that the slick proof assumes some background which may worth spelling out, first. Therefore, I am dedicating a short post for a … Continue reading

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Forcing with a Souslin tree makes p=ω1

I was meaning to include a proof of Farah’s lemma in my previous post, but then I realized that the slick proof assumes some background which may worth spelling out, first. Therefore, I am dedicating a short post for a … Continue reading

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The S-space problem, and the cardinal invariant p

Recall that an S-space is a regular hereditarily separable topological space which is not hereditarily Lindelöf. Do they exist? Consistently, yes. However, Szentmiklóssy proved that compact S-spaces do not exist, assuming Martin’s Axiom. Pushing this further, Todorcevic later proved that … Continue reading

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Jones’ theorem on the cardinal invariant p

This post continues the study of the cardinal invariant p. We refer the reader to a previous post for all the needed background. For ordinals α,α0,α1,β,β0,β1, the polarized partition relation (αβ)(α0α1β0β1) asserts that for every coloring f:α×β2, (at least) … Continue reading

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Jones’ theorem on the cardinal invariant p

This post continues the study of the cardinal invariant p. We refer the reader to a previous post for all the needed background. For ordinals α,α0,α1,β,β0,β1, the polarized partition relation (αβ)(α0α1β0β1) asserts that for every coloring f:α×β2, (at least) … Continue reading

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Bell’s theorem on the cardinal invariant p

In this post, we shall provide a proof to a famous theorem of Murray Bell stating that MAκ(the class of σ-centered posets) holds iff κ<p. We commence with defining the cardinal invariant p. For sets A and B, … Continue reading

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