Changing cardinal characteristics without changing \(\omega\)-sequences or cofinalities (Q1591206)

The authors investigate the behavior of cardinal invariants under special forcing conditions. The cardinal invariants considered are the bounding number, additivity, covering number and uniformity of \({\mathcal M}\) and \({\mathcal N}\) (the ideals of Lebesgue null sets and of meagre sets, respectively). They use forcing iterations with partial memories in order to change \({\mathfrak b}\), \(\text{cov}({\mathcal M})\), \(\text{cov}({\mathcal N})\), \(\text{unif} ({\mathcal M})\) and \(\text{univ} ({\mathcal N})\) without changing cofinalities. They show that \(\text{add} ({\mathcal M})\) and \(\text{add} ({\mathcal N})\) can be changed without changing cardinalities or the reals.