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What is the best way to construct an Aronszajn Tree?
There is also Shelah's very enjoyable construction using descending sequences of infinite subsets of $\omega$, close in spirit to Aronszajn's tree of rational sequences, and described in Judith Roitma …
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Diagonalizing against a non stationary set of functions
Sorry this is late and you may already have it all sorted out more attractively. I think an argument might go as follows. It rests on K. Devlin, Variations on $\diamondsuit$, JSL 44 (1979), modified f …
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Why should we care about "higher infinities" outside of set theory?
In line with Joel's answer and the theme that stronger set theories permit finer analysis of higher infinities, an example from commutative algebra suggesting the desirability of distinguishing more t …
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Is it consistent that $\frak{d} < 2^{\aleph_0}$?
Theorem 5.1 in Eric van Douwen's paper "The integers and topology" (Handbook of Set-theoretic Topology) is an old reference for a positive answer to your question and will provide a fuller explanation …
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$\delta$-strong compactness and generalized strong tree properties
Are there non-trivial equivalent characterizations of $\delta$-strongly compact (and almost strongly compact) cardinals in terms of generalized tree properties?
Recall the definitions as per Joan Ba …
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Forcing as a tool to prove theorems
An example from elementary geometry is the very simple forcing argument to establish the non-axiomatizability (in infinitary logic) of Sperner spaces, due to Blass and Pambuccian: Blass, A.; Pambuccia …
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Is $\clubsuit_{\omega_1}$ enough to get Suslin tree?
The answer is negative apparently. It is consistent relative to ZFC that all Aronszajn trees are
special and that the club principle holds:
http://home.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/mildenberger/postin …
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References for Forcing with Side Conditions
S. Todorcevic, Notes on Forcing Axioms, Chapter 7.
Itay Neeman, Forcing with side conditions. Oberwolfach, 2011. http://www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/
B. Velickovic, G. Venturi, Proper forcing remastere …
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If every nonseparable metric space contains a sequence of subsets with no convergent subsequ...
This answer is the proof given by Ashutosh, but formulated in terms of the splitting number.
Proposition
If the splitting number $s$ is $\aleph_{1}$, then every nonseparable metric space contains a s …
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On a weak tree property for inaccessible cardinals
The following theorem of Kurepa, proved in his thesis of 1935, seems to address your question.
Theorem Suppose that $\kappa = cf(\kappa) > \gamma$, and $(T, <_{T})$ is a $\kappa$-tree each of whose l …
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If every nonseparable metric space contains a sequence of subsets with no convergent subsequ...
If every nonseparable metric space contains a sequence of subsets with no convergent subsequence, does the Continuum Hypothesis hold?
The answer is negative, and in the interests of self-contained it …
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Preserving Jonsson cardinals
I am (still) interested in trying to characterize and describe forcings that preserve Jonsson cardinals. A cardinal $\kappa$ is a Jonsson cardinal if there is no Jonsson algebra on $\kappa$, i.e. ever …
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Under $\neg CH$, have countable unions of rationally independent numbers inner measure zero?
In their 1943 paper On non-denumerable graphs, Erdos and Kakutani suggest as likely the following proposition.
(EK*) Suppose CH fails and $\lbrace M_n : n \in \omega \rbrace$ is a countable family of …
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Examples of ZFC theorems proved via forcing
The Gitik-Shelah theorem is also perhaps an example, first proved with forcing by its discoverers, and then without by Anastasis Kamburelis and David Fremlin independently:
Moti Gitik, Saharon Shela …
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Complete resolutions of GCH
One candidate answer scheme might be the following: if $F$ is any (sufficiently absolute) definable function on the class of regular alephs such that $\kappa < \lambda \Rightarrow F(\kappa) \leq F(\la …