Combinatorial principles from adding Cohen reals

Authors István Juhász, Lajos Soukup, Zoltán Szentmiklóssy

Publication date 3 August 1998

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9605211

Other combinatorial set theory (03E05) Consistency and independence results (03E35) Applications of set theory (03E75) Consistency and independence results in general topology (54A35)

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Many topological statements are known to be consistent because they hold in models in which you add \(\kappa\) many Cohen reals. The purpose of this paper is to isolate the combinatorics behind these results, especially when \(\kappa=\omega_2\). The principles are too complicated to state in a review, but basically they have the form ``there is a large homogeneous sub-matrix of certain \(\kappa\times \omega\) matrices of subsets of \(\omega\). The many applications of these principles are quite various, involving, for example, pure combinatorics on \([\omega]^\omega\), Luzin gaps, scattered spaces, dyadic systems, first countable and related spaces, and so on. While some of the results were known (in the context of Cohen reals, of course, not in the new combinatorial context), many of the conclusions are stronger than what was known. I will give two examples to whet the reader's appetite: Theorem. Assume \(C(\kappa)\). Every first countable regular space with weight \(>\kappa\) has an uncountable subspace with an irreducible base. (If you assume separability of the original space, ``\(>\kappa\) can be weakened to ``\(\geq \kappa\).) And a generalization of a result of Just: Theorem. Assume \(C^s(\kappa)\). Then there is no locally compact, thin, scattered space of height \(\kappa\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00035].

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