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Singular σ-dense trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Avner Landver
Avner Landver*
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Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, E-mail: [email protected]
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Let be the least cardinal θ such that MAθ fails, (i.e. MA) implies that is regular. Models for regular with are easy to get (see [Ku1]). Fremlin and Miller proved that cof() > ω [Fr, 41C(d)]. The question of whether it is consistent that be singular was solved, in the affirmative, by Kunen [Ku1]. Kunen used a (θ, θ) strong gap in (ω)/Fin, whose splitting partial order is c.c.c. He showed that if cof(θ) = ω1, and P is a c.c.c. partial order of cardinality < θ that may destroy the strong gap, then there exists another c.c.c. partial order Q, which does not destroy the strong gap, and such that ⊩Q “P is not c.c.c”. One then gets Kunen's model by iterating c.c.c. partial orders of cardinality < θ, without destroying the strong (θ, θ) gap. It is unknown whether it is consistent to have ω1 < cof() < .

Clearly, there exists a c.c.c. partial order Q with ∣Q∣ = , such that (Q) = (see (1.1)). A partial order P is σ-centered iff P is the union of countably many centered subsets, where a subset A ⊆ P is centered iff p ≤ q. Clearly, a σ-centered partial order is c.c.c. Bell and Szymański proved that (σ-centered) is regular (see [Be] or [Fr, 14C], and [Fr, 21K] or [vD, 3.1(e)]). This implies that if P is a σ-centered partial order, and is singular, then (P) > . In particular, if is singular, then Q is not σ-centered and all c.c.c. partial orders of cardinality < have a Baire number (1.1) strictly greater than . It was suggested in [Ku1] to try and use Q(T) (1.2), where T is a tree with no ω1-branches, to get models with singular . It is well known that when T is such a tree, the forcing Q(T) is c.c.c. [BMR], ∣Q(T)∣ = ∣T∣, and if T is not special, then n(Q(T)) ≤ ∣T∣.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , December 1992 , pp. 1403 - 1416
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1992

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