On the cofinality of the splitting number

DOI10.1016/J.INDAG.2017.01.010zbMATH Open1436.03260arXiv1801.02517OpenAlexW2963567646MaRDI QIDQ1688965FDOQ1688965

Authors: Alan Dow, S. Shelah 

Publication date: 12 January 2018

Published in: Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The splitting number can be singular. The key method is to construct a forcing poset with finite support matrix iterations of ccc posets introduced by Blass and the second author "Ultrafilters with small generating sets", Israel J. Math., 65, (1989)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02517

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zbMATH Keywords

splitting numbercardinal invariants of the continuummatrix forcing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consistency and independence results (03E35) Cardinal characteristics of the continuum (03E17)

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