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Combinatorial properties of infinite sets. This is a corner-point of set theory and combinatorics.
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Is every Cartesian biaffine plane affine?
The answer to this question is "No". A non-affine biaffine Cartesian plane can be constructed as follows.
First, we fix a suitable terminology. Every function $F:X\to Y$ is identified with its graph …
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Is every Cartesian biaffine plane affine?
This question concerns the (synthetic) geometry of linear spaces.
Definition 1. A linear space is a pair $(P,\mathcal L)$ consisting of a set $P$ whose elements are called points and a family $\mathca …
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A convex version of the small uncountable cardinal $\mathfrak b$
Let us recall that $\mathfrak b$ is the smallest cardinality of a subset of $\omega^\omega$, which cannot be covered by countably many compact subsets of $\omega^\omega$.
The definition of $\mathfrak …
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Can the Boolean group $C_2^\omega$ be covered by less than $\mathfrak b$ nowhere dense subgr...
Lyubomyr Zdomskyy proved that in the Laver model $\mathrm{cov}_H(2^\omega)=\omega_1<\mathfrak b=\mathfrak c$.
His argument used the following known Laver property of the Laver model $V'$: for every
fu …
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Can the Boolean group $C_2^\omega$ be covered by less than $\mathfrak b$ nowhere dense subgr...
Let $\mathrm{cov}_H(C_2^\omega)$ be the smallest cardinality of a cover of the Boolean group $C_2^\omega=(\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z)^\omega$ by closed subgroups of infinite index. It can be shown that
$$\m …
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What is the smallest cardinality of a maximal ultrafamily of infinite subsets of $\omega$?
To my surprise, I found that this my ``new'' cardinal $\mathfrak{uf}$ is equal to $\mathfrak c$.
Theorem. $\mathfrak{uf}=\mathfrak{c}$.
Proof. Fix any maximal ultrafamily $\mathcal U\subseteq[\omeg …
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What is the smallest cardinality of a maximal ultrafamily of infinite subsets of $\omega$?
A family $\mathcal U$ of infinite subsets of $\omega$ is called an ultrafamily if for any sets $U,V\in\mathcal U$ one of the sets $U\setminus V$, $U\cap V$ or $V\setminus U$ is finite.
By the Kuratows …
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Continuous function covers in connected $T_2$-spaces
The answer is strong YES for connected spaces admitting a non-constant continuous function and NO in the opposite case.
If $X$ is a connected topological space that admits a non-constant continuous …
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Calculate the $\downarrow$, $\downarrow\uparrow$ and $\uparrow\downarrow$ cofinalities of th...
At the moment we have the following information on the cofinalities of the poset $\mathfrak P$ (see Theorem 7.1 in this preprint).
Theorem.
1) ${\downarrow}\!{\uparrow}\!{\downarrow}(\mathfra …
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Thinning directed sets ${\frak P}$ of partitions of $\omega$ with no ${\frak P}$-discrete su...
The answer to this question is negative.
Given a linearly ordered family $\mathfrak C$ of finitary partitions of $\omega$, write $\mathfrak C=\bigcup_{n=1}^\infty\mathfrak C_n$ where $\mathfrak C_n=\{ …
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Calculate the $\downarrow$, $\downarrow\uparrow$ and $\uparrow\downarrow$ cofinalities of th...
Let $(P,\le)$ be a poset. For a point $x\in P$ let
$${\downarrow}x=\{p\in P:p\le x\}\quad\text{and}\quad{\uparrow}x=\{p\in P:x\le p\}$$be the lower and upper sets of the point $x$, and for a subset $ …
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Relations between two tower numbers
A tower is a subset $T\subset [\omega]^\omega$ of the family $[\omega]^\omega$ of all infinite subsets of $\omega$ such that $T$ is well-ordered by the relation $\supset^*$ of almost inclusion and has …
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On Khelif's example of a group of countable cofinality having the Bergman property
A group $G$ is defined to have the Bergman property if for any subset $X=X^{-1}$ generating $G$ there exists $n$ such that $X^n=G$.
By a result of Bergman, the permutation group of any set has the B …
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A combinatorial property of uncountable groups, II
Problems 1 and 2 both have affirmative answers (implying that the finitary ballean of any uncountable group is normal).
Two cases are possible:
I. There exists a countable subgroup $A\subset G$ and …
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A combinatorial property of uncountable groups, II
Problem 1. Is it true that each uncountable group $G$ contains two subsets $A,B\subset G$ such that
1) for any $x,y\in G$ the intersection $xA\cap yB$ is finite and
2) for any function $ …