Arcs in the plane

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2011.08.007MaRDI QIDQ649611zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joan E. Hart, Kenneth Kunen

Publication date 2 December 2011

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2753

zbMATH Keywords

differentiable arcMAPFAsmooth arc

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuum hypothesis and Martin's axiom (03E50) Generic absoluteness and forcing axioms (03E57) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

Abstract: Assuming PFA, every uncountable subset E of the plane meets some C^1 arc in an uncountable set. This is not provable from MA(aleph_1), although in the case that E is analytic, this is a ZFC result. The result is false in ZFC for C^2 arcs, and the counter-example is a perfect set.

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