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The continuum, forcing and large cardinals

The continuum, forcing and large cardinals

Sy-David Friedman (ORCID: 0000-0001-8460-4394)
  • Grant DOI 10.55776/I1921
  • Funding program Principal Investigator Projects International
  • Status ended
  • Start December 1, 2014
  • End November 30, 2019
  • Funding amount € 393,750
  • Project website
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Bilaterale Ausschreibung: Tschechien

Disciplines

Mathematics (100%)

Keywords

    Tree property, Singular Cardinals, Mathias forcing, Selection Principles, Template Iterations

Abstract Final report

The work shall study interactions between large cardinals and forcing and also with regard to properties of the continuum. The work shall be divided into three subtopics: (1) First subtopic is called "Combinatorial properties of cardinals and the continuum function". The focus shall be on the impact of several combinatorial properties on the continuum function (a function which maps kappa to the size of the powerset of kappa). As Easton showed, without extra assumptions, there is very little ZFC can prove about the continuum function on regulars. However, once we start to consider large cardinals, or in general combinatorial properties often formulated in the context of large cardinals (tree property, square principles, etc.), suddenly the situation is much more interesting. Subtopic 1 studies these connections. (2) Second subtopic is called "Combinatorial characteristics of the continuum and the Mathias forcing". This subtopic focuses on the real line from the point of certain combinatorial characteristics which shall be studied by means of the Mathias forcing. This forcing is determined by a filter on the powerset of omega. Thus it is natural to study the connections between the combinatorial properties of filters and the properties of the real line. This subtopic combines set theory and topology. (3) The third subtopic is called "New developments in the template iterations." Template iterations is a modern forcing method with the potential to show new results regarding the combinatorial characteristics of the real line. Among the main problems to be studied are: obtaining cardinal characteristics with singular values, application of template iterations on non-definable posets, and finally the application of the method with the mixed finite and countable support. These new approaches will be useful in obtaining new results.

This project explored several aspects of set theory, the study of infinity. We explored the behaviour of large infinities (also known as large cardinals), the combinatorial properties of orderings and graphs, as well as specific properties of the continuum (the real line). The project was carried out jointly by the Vienna group at the Kurt Goedel Research Center and the Prague group at the Logic Department of Charles University.

Research institution(s)
  • Universität Wien - 100%
International project participants
  • Radek Honzik, Charles University Prague - Czechia

Research Output

  • 74 Citations
  • 46 Publications
Publications
  • 2025
    Title Good projective witnesses
    DOI 10.1016/j.apal.2025.103606
    Type Journal Article
    Author Fischer V
    Journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
    Pages 103606
    Link Publication
  • 2019
    Title A model with Suslin trees but no minimal uncountable linear orders other than ?1 and -?1
    DOI 10.1007/s11856-019-1899-x
    Type Journal Article
    Author Soukup D
    Journal Israel Journal of Mathematics
    Pages 199-224
  • 2019
    Title Infinite monochromatic sumsets for colourings of the reals
    DOI 10.1090/proc/14431
    Type Journal Article
    Author Komjáth P
    Journal Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
    Pages 2673-2684
    Link Publication
  • 2019
    Title Cycle reversions and dichromatic number in tournaments
    DOI 10.1016/j.ejc.2018.10.008
    Type Journal Article
    Author Ellis P
    Journal European Journal of Combinatorics
    Pages 31-48
    Link Publication
  • 2019
    Title Balanced independent sets in graphs omitting large cliques
    DOI 10.1016/j.jctb.2018.11.006
    Type Journal Article
    Author Laflamme C
    Journal Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
    Pages 1-9
    Link Publication
  • 2018
    Title On Spaces with Sigma-Closed-Discrete Dense Sets
    Type Journal Article
    Author Dias R.R.
    Journal Topology Proceedings
    Pages 245-264
    Link Publication
  • 2018
    Title The open dihypergraph dichotomy and the second level of the Borel hierarchy
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1803.03205
    Type Preprint
    Author Carroy R
  • 2018
    Title Two infinite quantities and their surprising relationship
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04331
    Type Preprint
    Author Soukup D
  • 2018
    Title A model with Suslin trees but no minimal uncountable linear orders other than $\omega_1$ and $-\omega_1$
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1803.03583
    Type Preprint
    Author Soukup D
  • 2018
    Title The tree property at the double successor of a singular cardinal with a larger gap
    DOI 10.1016/j.apal.2018.02.002
    Type Journal Article
    Author Friedman S
    Journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
    Pages 548-564
  • 2018
    Title Uncountable Strongly Surjective Linear Orders
    DOI 10.1007/s11083-018-9454-7
    Type Journal Article
    Author Soukup D
    Journal Order
    Pages 43-64
    Link Publication
  • 2018
    Title The tree property and the continuum function below
    DOI 10.1002/malq.201600028
    Type Journal Article
    Author Honzik R
    Journal Mathematical Logic Quarterly
    Pages 89-102
  • 2018
    Title More ZFC inequalities between cardinal invariants
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02791
    Type Preprint
    Author Fischer V
  • 2018
    Title TOWERS IN FILTERS, CARDINAL INVARIANTS, AND LUZIN TYPE FAMILIES
    DOI 10.1017/jsl.2017.52
    Type Journal Article
    Author Brendle J
    Journal The Journal of Symbolic Logic
    Pages 1013-1062
    Link Publication
  • 2018
    Title INFINITE COMBINATORICS PLAIN AND SIMPLE
    DOI 10.1017/jsl.2018.8
    Type Journal Article
    Author Soukup D
    Journal The Journal of Symbolic Logic
    Pages 1247-1281
    Link Publication
  • 2022
    Title Ideal topologies in higher descriptive set theory
    DOI 10.1016/j.apal.2021.103061
    Type Journal Article
    Author Holy P
    Journal Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
    Pages 103061
    Link Publication
  • 2021
    Title On the complexity of classes of uncountable structures: trees on $\aleph _1$
    DOI 10.4064/fm910-6-2020
    Type Journal Article
    Author Friedman S
    Journal Fundamenta Mathematicae
    Pages 175-196
    Link Publication
  • 2019
    Title Reducing the dichromatic number via cycle reversions in infinite digraphs
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1909.00873
    Type Preprint
    Author Ellis P
  • 2019
    Title A 0-dimensional, Lindelöf space that is not strongly D
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1902.06500
    Type Preprint
    Author Soukup D
  • 2019
    Title On the complexity of classes of uncountable structures: trees on $\aleph_1$
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1906.00849
    Type Preprint
    Author Friedman S
  • 2019
    Title A 0-dimensional, Lindelöf space that is not strongly D
    DOI 10.1016/j.topol.2019.106832
    Type Journal Article
    Author Soukup D
    Journal Topology and its Applications
    Pages 106832
    Link Publication
  • 2020
    Title Reducing the dichromatic number via cycle reversions in infinite digraphs
    DOI 10.1016/j.ejc.2020.103196
    Type Journal Article
    Author Ellis P
    Journal European Journal of Combinatorics
    Pages 103196
    Link Publication
  • 2020
    Title Laver Trees in the Generalized Baire Space
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2009.01886
    Type Preprint
    Author Khomskii Y
  • 2016
    Title Towers in filters, cardinal invariants, and Luzin type families
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1605.04735
    Type Preprint
    Author Brendle J
  • 2016
    Title $G_\delta $ and co-meager semifilters
    DOI 10.4064/fm182-2-2016
    Type Journal Article
    Author Brian W
    Journal Fundamenta Mathematicae
    Pages 1-14
    Link Publication
  • 2017
    Title Infinite combinatorics plain and simple
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1705.06195
    Type Preprint
    Author Soukup D
  • 2017
    Title Infinite monochromatic sumsets for colourings of the reals
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1710.07500
    Type Preprint
    Author Komjáth P
  • 2017
    Title Uncountable strongly surjective linear orders
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1706.10171
    Type Preprint
    Author Soukup D
  • 2020
    Title The open dihypergraph dichotomy and the second level of the Borel hierarchy
    DOI 10.1090/conm/752/15127
    Type Book Chapter
    Author Carroy R
    Publisher American Mathematical Society (AMS)
    Pages 1-19
    Link Publication
  • 2015
    Title Decompositions of edge-coloured infinite complete graphs into monochromatic paths II
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1507.06187
    Type Preprint
    Author Soukup D
  • 2017
    Title Grigorieff forcing and the tree property
    DOI 10.14712/24647055.2017.16
    Type Journal Article
    Author Stejskalová Š
    Journal AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA
    Pages 63-72
    Link Publication
  • 2017
    Title Preserving measurability with Cohen iterations
    DOI 10.14712/24647055.2017.13
    Type Journal Article
    Author Honzík R
    Journal AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA
    Pages 27-32
    Link Publication
  • 2017
    Title Cycle reversions and dichromatic number in tournaments
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02441
    Type Preprint
    Author Ellis P
  • 2017
    Title On spaces with $\sigma$-closed-discrete dense sets
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1701.00356
    Type Preprint
    Author Dias R
  • 2017
    Title Decompositions of edge-colored infinite complete graphs into monochromatic paths
    DOI 10.1016/j.disc.2016.09.028
    Type Journal Article
    Author Elekes M
    Journal Discrete Mathematics
    Pages 2053-2069
    Link Publication
  • 0
    Title The tree property at alphe_omega+2 with aleph_omega strong limit and 2^aleph_omega large
    Type Journal Article
    Author Friedman S.-D.
    Journal Fundamenta Mathematicae
    Pages 1-26
    Link Publication
  • 0
    Title 0022-4812
    Type Journal Article
    Author Fischer V.
    Journal Journal of Symbolic Logic
    Pages 1-15
    Link Publication
  • 0
    Title The open dihypergraph dichotomy and the second level of the Borel hierarchy1
    Type Journal Article
    Author Carroy R.
    Journal Contemporary mathematics : CONM
    Pages 1-24
    Link Publication
  • 2022
    Title Laver trees in the generalized Baire space
    DOI 10.1007/s11856-022-2465-5
    Type Journal Article
    Author Khomskii Y
    Journal Israel Journal of Mathematics
    Pages 599-620
    Link Publication
  • 2021
    Title MORE ZFC INEQUALITIES BETWEEN CARDINAL INVARIANTS
    DOI 10.1017/jsl.2021.52
    Type Journal Article
    Author Fischer V
    Journal The Journal of Symbolic Logic
    Pages 897-912
    Link Publication
  • 2021
    Title A universal partition result for infinite homogeneous K n -free and related graphs
    DOI 10.1016/j.disc.2020.112153
    Type Journal Article
    Author Aranda A
    Journal Discrete Mathematics
    Pages 112153
    Link Publication
  • 2021
    Title Ideal Topologies in Higher Descriptive Set Theory
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2111.07339
    Type Preprint
    Author Holy P
  • 2018
    Title A Laver-like indestructibility for hypermeasurable cardinals
    DOI 10.1007/s00153-018-0637-0
    Type Journal Article
    Author Honzik R
    Journal Archive for Mathematical Logic
    Pages 275-287
  • 2018
    Title Ladder system uniformization on trees I & II
    DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1806.03867
    Type Preprint
    Author Soukup D
  • 2017
    Title Decompositions of edge-coloured infinite complete graphs into monochromatic paths II
    DOI 10.1007/s11856-017-1552-5
    Type Journal Article
    Author Soukup D
    Journal Israel Journal of Mathematics
    Pages 235-273
  • 2017
    Title Orientations of graphs with uncountable chromatic number
    DOI 10.1002/jgt.22233
    Type Journal Article
    Author Soukup D
    Journal Journal of Graph Theory
    Pages 606-630
    Link Publication

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