Tag Archives: 03E05

Reduced powers of Souslin trees

Joint work with Ari Meir Brodsky. Abstract. We study the relationship between a κ-Souslin tree T and its reduced powers Tθ/U. Previous works addressed this problem from the viewpoint of a single power θ, whereas here, tools are developed … Continue reading

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Putting a diamond inside the square

Abstract. By a 35-year-old theorem of Shelah, ◻λ+(λ+) does not imply square-with-built-in-diamond_lambda for regular uncountable cardinals λ. Here, it is proved that ◻λ+(λ+) is equivalent to square-with-built-in-diamond_lambda for every singular cardinal λ. Downloads: Citation information: A. Rinot, Putting a diamond inside … Continue reading

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Jensen’s diamond principle and its relatives

This is chapter 6 in the book Set Theory and Its Applications (ISBN: 0821848127). Abstract: We survey some recent results on the validity of Jensen’s diamond principle at successor cardinals. We also discuss weakening of this principle such as club … Continue reading

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A cofinality-preserving small forcing may introduce a special Aronszajn tree

Extended Abstract: Shelah proved that Cohen forcing introduces a Souslin tree; Jensen proved that a c.c.c. forcing may consistently add a Kurepa tree; Todorcevic proved that a Knaster poset may already force the Kurepa hypothesis; Irrgang introduced a c.c.c. notion … Continue reading

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A relative of the approachability ideal, diamond and non-saturation

Abstract: Let λ denote a singular cardinal. Zeman, improving a previous result of Shelah, proved that ◻λ together with 2λ=λ+ implies S for every Sλ+ that reflects stationarily often. In this paper, for a subset Sλ+, a normal subideal of … Continue reading

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On guessing generalized clubs at the successors of regulars

Abstract: Konig, Larson and Yoshinobu initiated the study of principles for guessing generalized clubs, and introduced a construction of an higher Souslin tree from the strong guessing principle. Complementary to the author’s work on the validity of diamond and non-saturation … Continue reading

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On the consistency strength of the Milner-Sauer conjecture

Abstract: In their paper from 1981, Milner and Sauer conjectured that for any poset P, if cf(P) is a singular cardinal λ, then P must contain an antichain of size cf(λ). The conjecture is consistent and known … Continue reading

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The Ostaszewski square, and homogeneous Souslin trees

Abstract: Assume GCH and let λ denote an uncountable cardinal. We prove that if ◻λ holds, then this may be  witnessed by a coherent sequence Cαα<λ+ with the following remarkable guessing property: For every sequence Aii<λContinue reading

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