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The graph-theoretic approach to descriptive set theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2014

Benjamin D. Miller
Benjamin D. Miller*
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Institut für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Münster, Einsteinstraße 62, 48149 Münster, Germany E-mail: bdm@uni-muenster.de, URL: http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/u/ben.miller
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Abstract

We sketch the ideas behind the use of chromatic numbers in establishing descriptive set-theoretic dichotomy theorems.

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Primary 03E15secondary 28A05.Coloringsdescriptive set theorydichotomy theorems.

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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 2012 , pp. 554 - 575
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2012

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