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On the existence of an analytic set meeting each compact set in a Borel set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. R. D. Mathias
Affiliation:
Peterhouse, Cambridge, Université Paris VI, 4 Place Jussieu, 75230 Paris
A. J. Ostaszewski
Affiliation:
London School of Economics, Université Paris VI, 4 Place Jussieu, 75230 Paris
M. Talagrand
Affiliation:
Equipe d'Analyse, Université Paris VI, 4 Place Jussieu, 75230 Paris

Extract

C. A. Rogers and J. E. Jayne have asked whether, given a Polish space and an analytic subset A of which is not a Borel set, there is always a compact subset K of such that, AK is not Borel. In this paper we give both a proof, using Martin's axiom and the negation of the continuum hypothesis, of and a counter-example, using the axiom of constructibility, to the conjecture of Rogers and Jayne, which set theory with the axiom of choice is thus powerless to decide.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1978

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