Constructions of thin-tall Boolean spaces. (Q1432792)

This paper is an expository paper on locally compact \(T_2\) scattered spaces (LCS-spaces). In the introduction, a brief, well written history on the subject is given. If the height of an LCS-space \(X\) is \(\alpha\) and the width of \(X\) is \(\beta\), \(X\) is said to be an \((\alpha,\beta)\)-LCS-space. The object of this paper is to give some methods of construction of \((\alpha,\beta)\)-LCS-spaces. Of course, all spaces constructed are in ZFC. In the first section, constructions of \((\omega,\omega_1)\)-LCS-space and for nonzero ordinals \(\alpha<\omega_2\), \((\omega,\alpha)\)-LCS spaces, are given. The next step is the existence of \((\omega,\omega_2)\)-LCS spaces. Its answer is the Baumgartner-Shelah result: \(\text{Con}(\text{ZFC})\to \text{Con}(\text{ZFC}+\) there is an \((\omega,\omega_2)\)-LCS space) and its proof. On the construction of height greater than \(\omega_2\), the following result is obtained: \(\text{Con}(\text{ZFC})\to \text{Con}(\text{FZC}+\) for every \(\alpha<\omega_3\) there is an \((\omega,\alpha)\)-LCS-space). On the construction of uncountable weight, a general theorem is proved, but two corollaries are mentioned in familiar terminologies, namely if \(V= L\) holds, then there is a \((\kappa,\kappa^+)\)-LCS-space for every regular cardinal \(\kappa\). This result is also implied from the hypothesis that there do not exist inaccessible cardinals in ZFC.