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40th summer conference on topology and its applications

I gave an invited talk at the General and Set-Theoretic Topology session of the 40th summer conference on topology and its applications, July 2026. Talk title: A tree-based perfectly normal space whose square is not countably metacompact. Abstract. The study … Continue reading

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The power of trees

Joint work with Ari Meir Brodsky and Shira Yadai. Abstract. We give two consistent constructions of trees $T$ whose finite power $T^{n+1}$ is sharply different from $T^n$: An $\aleph_1$-tree $T$ whose interval topology $X_T$ is perfectly normal, but $(X_T)^2$ is … Continue reading

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Proxy principles in combinatorial set theory

Joint work with Ari Meir Brodsky and Shira Yadai. Abstract. The parameterized proxy principles were introduced by Brodsky and Rinot in a 2017 paper as new foundations for the construction of $\kappa$-Souslin trees in a uniform way that does not … 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 $V(\mathbf T)$ of a normal $\kappa$-tree $\mathbf T$. 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 $\kappa$-tree is full if each of its limit levels omits no more than one potential branch. Kunen asked whether a full $\kappa$-Souslin tree may consistently exist. Shelah gave an affirmative … Continue reading

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