Knaster and friends I: closed colorings and precalibers

Chris Lambie-Hanson, Assaf Rinot

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Abstract

The productivity of the κ-chain condition, where κ is a regular, uncountable cardinal, has been the focus of a great deal of set-theoretic research. In the 1970s, consistent examples of κ-cc posets whose squares are not κ-cc were constructed by Laver, Galvin, Roitman and Fleissner. Later, ZFC examples were constructed by Todorcevic, Shelah, and others. The most difficult case, that in which κ= ℵ2, was resolved by Shelah in 1997. In this work, we obtain analogous results regarding the infinite productivity of strong chain conditions, such as the Knaster property. Among other results, for any successor cardinal κ, we produce a ZFC example of a poset with precaliber κ whose ωth power is not κ-cc. To do so, we carry out a systematic study of colorings satisfying a strong unboundedness condition. We prove a number of results indicating circumstances under which such colorings exist, in particular focusing on cases in which these colorings are moreover closed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number90
JournalAlgebra Universalis
Volume79
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Closed coloring
  • Knaster
  • Precaliber
  • Square
  • Stationary reflection
  • Unbounded function

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Algebra and Number Theory

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