The subseries number

DOI10.4064/FM667-11-2018zbMATH Open1480.03042arXiv1801.06206OpenAlexW2962752772MaRDI QIDQ5226519FDOQ5226519

Joel David Hamkins, Jörg Brendle, W. R. Brian

Publication date: 31 July 2019

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

Abstract: Every conditionally convergent series of real numbers has a divergent subseries. How many subsets of the natural numbers are needed so that every conditionally convergent series diverges on the subseries corresponding to one of these sets? The answer to this question is defined to be the subseries number, a new cardinal characteristic of the continuum. This cardinal is bounded below by $alep{h}_1$ and above by the cardinality of the continuum, but it is not provably equal to either. We define three natural variants of the subseries number, and compare them with each other, with their corresponding rearrangement numbers, and with several well-studied cardinal characteristics of the continuum. Many consistency results are obtained from these comparisons, and we obtain another by computing the value of the subseries number in the Laver model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06206

zbMATH Keywords

conditionally convergent seriesLaver modelcardinal characteristics of the continuumsubseries and rearrangements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Consistency and independence results (03E35) Cardinal characteristics of the continuum (03E17)

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• Combinatorial Cardinal Characteristics of the Continuum
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