Tag Archives: ZFC construction

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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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 Shelah group in ZFC

Joint work with Márk Poór. Abstract. In a paper from 1980, Shelah constructed an uncountable group all of whose proper subgroups are countable. Assuming the continuum hypothesis, he constructed an uncountable group G that moreover admits an integer n satisfying … 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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Strong failures of higher analogs of Hindman’s Theorem

Joint work with David J. Fernández Bretón. Abstract.  We show that various analogs of Hindman’s Theorem fail in a strong sense when one attempts to obtain uncountable monochromatic sets: Theorem 1. There exists a colouring c:RQ, such that … Continue reading

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Mathematics Colloquium, Bar-Ilan University, November 2013

I gave a colloquium talk at Bar-Ilan University on November 10, 2013. Title: Forcing as a tool to prove theorems Abstract: Paul Cohen celebrated solution to Hilbert’s first problem showed that the Continuum Hypothesis is independent of the usual axioms of … Continue reading

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Rectangular square-bracket operation for successor of regular cardinals

Joint work with Stevo Todorcevic. Extended Abstract: Consider the coloring statement λ+[λ+;λ+]λ+2 for a given regular cardinal λ: In 1990, Shelah proved the above for λ>20; In 1991, Shelah proved the above for λ>1; In 1997, Shelah proved the above … Continue reading

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Transforming rectangles into squares, with applications to strong colorings

Abstract: It is proved that every singular cardinal  λ admits a function rts:[λ+]2[λ+]2 that transforms rectangles into squares. That is, whenever A,B are cofinal subsets of λ+, we have rts[AB]CC, for some cofinal subset Cλ+. As a … Continue reading

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