Large semilattices of breadth three

DOI10.4064/FM208-1-1MaRDI QIDQ3553283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Friedrich Wehrung

Publication date 22 April 2010

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

zbMATH Keywords

gap-\(1\) morassKurepa treeladderslower coversMartin's Axiomnormed latticeprecaliberprincipal ideal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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