More on cardinal arithmetic (Q1313596)

The author improves and extends several results from previous papers (listed as to appear) and his book \textit{Cardinal arithmetic} (listed as in press). All results involve estimating sizes of collections of sets of some sort or another and lead on occasion to bounds for products of cardinals. Particularly noteworthy for this reviewer are: 1. A characterization of those \(\kappa< \sigma< \theta\) for which a sequence \(\langle f_ \alpha: \alpha<\theta\rangle\) in \({}^ \kappa \sigma\) exists such that \(f_ \alpha\not\leq f_ \beta\) whenever \(\alpha<\beta\). 2. Entangled linear orders of arbitrarily large size: if \(\lambda\) is a singular strong limit then some successor cardinal in the interval \((\lambda, 2^ \lambda]\) has such an order. 3. Estimates of sizes of strongly almost disjoint families.