Problem of the existence of nonborel \(AF_{\|}\)-sets (Q1071762)

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Problem of the existence of nonborel \(AF_{\|}\)-sets
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    Problem of the existence of nonborel \(AF_{\|}\)-sets (English)
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    1985
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    Let \(F_{\|}\) denote the following property of a subset X of a metric space: there is no subset Y of X which is closed in X and of first category in itself. Of course every absolute G set has the property \(F_{\|}.\) It is known (Gurevič) that an absolute separable complementary analytic set has the property \(F_{\|}\) if and only if it is an absolute \(G_{\delta}\). The author shows that the analogue of this theorem for absolute analytic sets is independent of ZFC. In fact he proves that the existence of a separable absolute analytic set having \(F_{\|}\) and not being \(G_{\delta}\) is equivalent to the existence of an uncountable CA-set without perfect subsets (in the Baire space of the irrationals). By a well known result of Solovay the last property is independent of ZFC. In addition both above properties are equivalent to the following: there is a non-Borel CA set E included in the irrationals such that each of its Borel subsets has an \(F_{\sigma}\) neighbourhood U in E.
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    non-Borel set
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    metric space
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    absolute analytic sets
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    uncountable CA-set without perfect subsets
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    Baire space of the irrationals
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