Evasion and prediction - the Specker phenomenon and Gross spaces

DOI10.1515/FORM.1995.7.513zbMATH Open0830.03026arXivmath/9309204OpenAlexW1972150498MaRDI QIDQ4850409FDOQ4850409

Jörg Brendle

Publication date: 20 November 1995

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the set--theoretic combinatorics underlying the following two algebraic phenomena. (1) A subgroup G leq Z^omega exhibits the Specker phenomenon iff every homomorphism G to Z maps almost all unit vectors to 0. Let se be the size of the smallest G leq Z^omega exhibiting the Specker phenomenon. (2) Given an uncountably dimensional vector space E equipped with a symmetric bilinear form Phi over an at most countable field KK, (E,Phi) is strongly Gross iff for all countably dimensional U leq E, we have dim(U^perp) leq omega. Blass showed that the Specker phenomenon is closely related to a combinatorial phenomenon he called evading and predicting. We prove several additional results (both theorems of ZFC and independence proofs) about evading and predicting as well as se, and relate a Luzin--style property associated with evading to the existence of strong Gross spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9309204

zbMATH Keywords

independencesymmetric bilinear formSpecker phenomenonevading and predictingLuzin-style propertystrong Gross spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Other combinatorial set theory (03E05) Consistency and independence results (03E35) Direct sums, direct products, etc. for abelian groups (20K25) Applications of set theory (03E75)

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