Large semilattices of breadth three

DOI10.4064/FM208-1-1zbMATH Open1202.03053arXiv0804.1781OpenAlexW3105120399MaRDI QIDQ3553283FDOQ3553283

Friedrich Wehrung

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A 1984 problem of S.Z. Ditor asks whether there exists a lattice of cardinality aleph two, with zero, in which every principal ideal is finite and every element has at most three lower covers. We prove that the existence of such a lattice follows from either one of two axioms that are known to be independent of ZFC, namely (1) Martin's Axiom restricted to collections of aleph one dense subsets in posets of precaliber aleph one, (2) the existence of a gap-1 morass. In particular, the existence of such a lattice is consistent with ZFC, while the non-existence of such a lattice implies that omega two is inaccessible in the constructible universe. We also prove that for each regular uncountable cardinal $kappa$ and each positive integer n, there exists a join-semilattice L with zero, of cardinality $kapp{a}^{+n}$ and breadth n+1, in which every principal ideal has less than $kappa$ elements.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1781

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zbMATH Keywords

principal idealKurepa treenormed latticeprecaliberMartin's Axiomladderslower coversgap-\(1\) morass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial set theory (03E05) Consistency and independence results (03E35) Set-theoretic model theory (03C55)

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