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Cohen-stable families of subsets of integers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Miloš S. Kurilić
Miloš S. Kurilić*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 4, 21000 Novi Sad. Yugoslavia
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Abstract

A maximal almost disjoint (mad) family ⊆ [ω]ω is Cohen-stable if and only if it remains maximal in any Cohen generic extension. Otherwise it is Cohen-unstable. It is shown that a mad family. .is Cohen-unstable if and only if there is a bijection G from ω to the rationals such that the sets G[A]. A ∈ are nowhere dense. An ℵ0-mad family, . is a mad family with the property that given any countable family ℬ ⊂ [ω]ω such that each element of ℬ meets infinitely many elements of in an infinite set there is an element of meeting each element of ℬ in an infinite set. It is shown that Cohen-stable mad families exist if and only if there exist ℵ0-mad families. Either of the conditions b = c or a < cov() implies that there exist Cohen-stable mad families. Similar results are obtained for splitting families. For example, a splitting family. . is Cohen-unstable if and only if there is a bijection G from ω to the rationals such that the boundaries of the sets G[S], S ∈ are nowhere dense. Also. Cohen-stable splitting families of cardinality ≤ κ exist if and only if ℵ0-splitting families of cardinality ≤ κ exist.

Keywords

Cohen forcingmad familiessplitting families
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 257 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2001

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