Evasion and Prediction II

DOI10.1112/JLMS/53.1.19zbMATH Open0854.03045arXivmath/9407207OpenAlexW2162415583MaRDI QIDQ4894563FDOQ4894563

Authors: Jörg Brendle, S. Shelah 

Publication date: 7 October 1996

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A subgroup G leq Z^omega exhibits the Specker phenomenon if every homomorphism G o Z maps almost all unit vectors to 0. We give several combinatorial characterizations of the cardinal se, the size of the smallest G leq Z^omega exhibiting the Specker phenomenon. We also prove the consistency of b < e, where b is the unbounding number and e the evasion number introduced recently by Blass. Finally we show that e geq min { aleph_0--e , cov(M) }, where aleph_0--e is the aleph_0--evasion number (the uniformity of the evasion ideal) and cov(M) is the covering number of the meager ideal. All these results can be dualized. They answer several questions addressed by Blass.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9407207

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zbMATH Keywords

consistencycardinal invariants of the continuumunbounding numberSpecker phenomenonevasion numbercombinatorial characterization of the Specker-Eda number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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