The depth of ultraproducts of Boolean algebras

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Abstract: We show in ZFC, that the depth of ultraproducts of Boolean Algebras may be bigger than the ultraproduct of the depth of those Boolean Algebras.


The general question, due to Monk and extensively investigated, is: what is the relationship between Inv\((\Pi_{\alpha < \kappa}\mathbb B_{\alpha}/D)\) and \(\Pi_{\alpha < \kappa}\)Inv\((\mathbb B_{\alpha})/D\), where each \(\mathbb B_{\alpha}\) is a Boolean algebra, \(D\) is an ultrafilter on \(\kappa\), and Inv is some cardinal invariant. I.e., what is the relationship between a cardinal invariant of an ultraproduct and the ultraproduct of the cardinal invariants? Given a cardinal invariant Inv defined as the sup of the order types of sets with a property \(P\) it is useful to consider Inv\(^{+}\) where Inv\(^{+} = \sup\{\nu^+\): the Boolean algebra has a set with property \(P\) of order type \(\nu\}\). This paper looks at the cardinal invariants Depth and Depth\(^{+}\), where Depth\((\mathbb B) = \sup \{\nu: \mathbb B\) has a strictly increasing sequence of order type \(\nu\}\). The open question is whether the depth of the ultraproduct can be strictly greater than the ultraproduct of the depths. The main result considers ultraproducts \((\Pi_{\alpha < \kappa}\mathbb B_{\alpha}/D)\) where each \(\mathbb B_{\alpha}\) has depth \(\leq\lambda\), where \(\lambda > \Pi_{\alpha < \lambda}| \alpha| ^{\kappa}/D\) (so \(\lambda\) is large relative to \(\kappa\)), and there is a compact cardinal \(\mu\) with \(\kappa < \mu \leq \lambda\). Its conclusion is that the Depth\(^{+}\) of the ultraproduct is \(\leq \lambda\). As a corollary, given a compact cardinal \(\mu\) and \(\kappa < \mu\), if \(D\) is a regular ultrafilter on \(\kappa\) then Depth\((\Pi_{\alpha < \kappa}\mathbb B_{\alpha}/D) \leq \mu + \Pi_{\alpha < \kappa}\)Depth\((\mathbb B_{\alpha})/D\). This puts constraints on any attempt to construct a ZFC example where the depth of the ultraproduct is strictly greater than the ultraproduct of the depths.











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