Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 41274

forcing, large cardinals, descriptive set theory, infinite combinatorics, cardinal characteristics, forcing axioms, ultrapowers, measures, reflection, pcf theory, models of set theory, axioms of set theory, independence, axiom of choice, continuum hypothesis, determinacy, Borel equivalence relations, Boolean-valued models, embeddings, orders, relations, transfinite recursion, set theory as a foundation of mathematics, the philosophy of set theory.

6 votes

Transfer of results from one model of set theory to another

Being an isomorphism between two (first order) structures is a $\Delta_0$-property, and hence, it is absolute for transitive models. Thus, being isomorphic is a $\Sigma_1$-property, and it is upwards …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
10 votes
Accepted

Paradoxical Decompositions

A positive answer is proved in S. Wagon's book "The Banach-Tarski Paradox", Theorem 13.2. Specifically, the statement proved there is: Con(ZF) $\leftrightarrow$ Con(ZF + DC + GM), where GM is the ex …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
7 votes
1 answer
576 views

Does OCA imply $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_2$?

Is it known whether Todorcevic's Open Coloring Axiom implies $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_2$? The only consistency proofs for OCA that I know are the following: 1) PFA implies OCA (and also $2^{\aleph_0}=\a …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
4 votes
1 answer
520 views

Iterated ultrapowers of L

If there exists a measurable cardinal, we can generate a sequence of iterated ultrapowers $\{Ult_U^\alpha(V)\}_{\alpha\in ON}$. If $0^\sharp$ exists, i.e. if there exists an elementary embedding $j:L\ …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
7 votes
1 answer
255 views

Generic filters of inverse limits

Maybe this doubt is silly, but I do not understand the final step of the proof of Lemma 5.2 in Hamkins' paper Fragile measurability, Journal of Symbolic Logic 59 (1994) 262-282. There, $\mathbb P_\la …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
11 votes
1 answer
832 views

Erdős cardinals and ineffable cardinals

In Cantor's Attic it is stated that an $\omega$-Erdős cardinal is a stationary limit of ineffable cardinals, and Jech book is given as a reference, but I cannot find this result in that book. I have s …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
13 votes
1 answer
859 views

Ultrafilter theorem and translation invariant measures

The usual Vitali construction of a non-Lebesgue measurable set generalizes to a proof that there are no (non-trivial) translation invariant measures on $\mathcal P\mathbb R$. On the other hand, there …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
10 votes
1 answer
343 views

On the definition of the $\alpha$-iterable cardinals

I am reading the paper Ramsey-like cardinals II by Victoria Gitman and Philip Welch (Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 76, no. 2. pp. 541-560, 2011) and maybe I am missing something. According to the d …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
3 votes
1 answer
303 views

Invariants of category in Polish spaces

Consider the invariants appearing in the Cichoń's diagram: $add(\mathcal I)$, $cov(\mathcal I)$, $non(\mathcal I)$, $cof(\mathcal I)$, where $\mathcal I$ is either the ideal of null sets for the Lebes …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
8 votes
1 answer
168 views

Does being special on a club imply being special?

Let $T$ be an Aronszajn-tree, $C\subset \omega_1$ a club set and $f:\bigcup\limits_{\alpha\in C}T_\alpha\longrightarrow \mathbb Q$ a strictly increasing function (where $T_\alpha$ is the $\alpha$-leve …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
6 votes
1 answer
237 views

On the definition of $\alpha$-proper poset

I am reading Uri Abraham's chapter on Proper Forcing in the Handbook of Set Theory and I have a quite trivial question on the definition of $\alpha$-proper forcing. Since there are many equivalent def …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
3 votes
2 answers
419 views

Is not SH + not CH consistent?

I guess that $\lnot$SH + $\lnot$CH is consistent, but I have not found this question discussed anywhere. Is there any relatively simple model of $\lnot$SH + $\lnot$CH?
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
10 votes
1 answer
450 views

Erdős cardinals and $0^\sharp$

It is well-known that if the Erdős cardinal $\kappa(\omega_1)$ exists, then $0^\sharp$ exists, but what if $\kappa(\lambda)$ exists for a limit ordinal $\omega_1^L\leq \lambda<\omega_1$? Does this sti …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
7 votes
2 answers
829 views

Is the forcing relation defined for mathematical formulas?

Meta-matematical formulas of the language of set-theory (which are not sets, but just sequences of signs) should not be confused with mathematical ones (i.e. formulas coded as sets, e.g. finite sequen …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688
4 votes
0 answers
161 views

What is the meaning of restricting a Boolean value to a subalgebra?

$\require{AMScd}$ I am studying the proof that the ordering principle does not imply the axiom of choice in Jech's book "The Axiom of Choice" (Section 5.5). Let $P$ be the set of finite partial functi …
Carlos's user avatar
  • 1,688

15 30 50 per page