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Can the Collatz conjecture be independent of ZFC? [closed]
It is known that the Continuum Hypothesis is independent of ZFC.
The formulation of the Collatz conjecture looks somehow more simple than that of the Continuum Hypothesis.
Is it possible that the ...
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CH and the existence of a Borel partition of small cardinality
Say $\kappa$ is small if any set of cardinality $\kappa$ has outer-Lebesgue measure zero. We know that, in the Cohen model of ZFC where CH is false, there is a Borel partition of the unit interval of ...
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Can $H_{\omega_1}$ and $H_{\omega_2}$ be in bi-interpretation synonymy?
This question concerns the possibility of the bi-interpretation synonymy of the structure
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H_{\omega_1},\in\rangle$, consisting of the hereditarily countable sets, and the structure $\langle ...
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Is it still an open problem whether $\mathbb{R}^\omega$ is normal in the box topology?
On page 205 of his Topology textbook, James Munkres made an interesting remark:
It is not known whether $\mathbb{R}^\omega$ is normal in the box topology. Mary-Ellen Rudin has shown that the answer ...