Tag Archives: Club Guessing

Walks on uncountable ordinals and non-structure theorems for higher Aronszajn lines

Joint work with Tanmay Inamdar. Abstract. We investigate global structural properties of linear orders of a fixed infinite size. It is classical that the countable linear orders and the continuum-sized orders exhibit contrasting behaviours. Modern results show that strong extensions … 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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A club guessing toolbox I

Joint work with Tanmay Inamdar. Abstract. Club guessing principles were introduced by Shelah as a weakening of Jensen’s diamond. Most spectacularly, they were used to prove Shelah’s ZFC bound on the power of the first singular cardinal. These principles have … Continue reading

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Partitioning a reflecting stationary set

Joint work with Maxwell Levine. Abstract. We address the question of whether a reflecting stationary set may be partitioned into two or more reflecting stationary subsets, providing various affirmative answers in ZFC. As an application to singular cardinals combinatorics, we infer … Continue reading

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4th Arctic Set Theory Workshop, January 2019

I gave an invited talk at the Arctic Set Theory Workshop 4 in Kilpisjärvi, January 2019. Talk Title: Splitting a stationary set: Is there another way? Abstract: Motivated by a problem in pcf theory, we seek for a new way … Continue reading

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Distributive Aronszajn trees

Joint work with Ari Meir Brodsky. Abstract.  Ben-David and Shelah proved that if λ is a singular strong-limit cardinal and 2λ=λ+, then ◻λ entails the existence of a λ-distributive λ+-Aronszajn tree. Here, it is proved that the same conclusion remains … Continue reading

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Partitioning the club guessing

In a recent paper, I am making use of the following  fact. Theorem (Shelah, 1997). Suppose that κ is an accessible cardinal (i.e., there exists a cardinal θ<κ such that 2θκ). Then there exists a sequence gδ:CδωδEκκ+Continue reading

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Shelah’s approachability ideal (part 2)

In a previous post, we defined Shelah’s approachability ideal I[λ]. We remind the reader that a subset Sλ is in I[λ] iff there exists a collection {Dαα<λ}[P(λ)]<λ such that for club many δS, the union … Continue reading

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Shelah’s approachability ideal (part 1)

Given an infinite cardinal λ, Shelah defines an ideal I[λ] as follows. Definition (Shelah, implicit in here). A set S is in I[λ] iff Sλ and there exists a collection {Dαα<λ}[P(λ)]<λ, and some club Eλ, so … Continue reading

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An inconsistent form of club guessing

In this post, we shall present an answer (due to P. Larson) to a question by A. Primavesi concerning a certain strong form of club guessing. We commence with recalling Shelah’s concept of club guessing. Concept (Shelah). Given a regular … Continue reading

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