The automorphism group of P()/fin need not be simple

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(90)90092-GMaRDI QIDQ909686zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Eric K. van Douwen

Publication date 1990

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(90)90092-G

zbMATH Keywords

higher cardinalitiesintegers mod finitenormal subgroupstrivial automorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consistency and independence results (03E35) Boolean algebras (Boolean rings) (06E99) Infinite automorphism groups (20B27) Simple groups (20E32) Extremally disconnected spaces, (F)-spaces, etc. (54G05)

Review text

An automorphism of \({\mathcal P}(\omega)/fin\) is trivial if it is induced by a one-one function from a cofinite subset of \(\omega\) onto another cofinite subset of \(\omega\). The collection T of trivial automorphisms of \({\mathcal P}(\omega)/fin\) is a subgroup of the group G of all automorphisms of it. The main result of this note is that T is not simple. By a result of Shelah, it is consistent to have \(T=G\), so a corollary is that it is consistent that G is not simple (a result of S. Koppelberg). All normal subgroups of T are described, and the problem of generalizing the results to higher cardinalities is considered.

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