Publications Meetings The Profession Membership Programs Math Samplings Policy & Advocacy In the News About the AMS
|
   
Mobile Device Pairing
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-6850(e) ISSN 0002-9947(p)

     

There is a Van Douwen MAD family

Author(s): Dilip Raghavan
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), 5879-5891.
MSC (2010): Primary 03E17, 03E15, 03E05, 03E50
Posted: June 11, 2010
MathSciNet review: 2661500
Retrieve article in: PDF

Abstract | References | Similar articles | Additional information

Abstract: We answer a long-standing question of Van Douwen by proving in $ \mathrm{ZFC}$ that there is a MAD family of functions in $ {\omega}^{\omega}$ that is also maximal with respect to infinite partial functions. In Section 3 we apply the idea of trace introduced in this proof to the still open question of whether analytic MAD families exist in $ {\omega}^{\omega}$. Using the idea of trace, we show that any analytic MAD families that may exist in $ {\omega}^{\omega}$ must satisfy strong combinatorial constraints. We also show that it is consistent to have MAD families in $ {\omega}^{\omega}$ that satisfy these constraints.


References:

1.
Tomek Bartoszyński, Combinatorial aspects of measure and category, Fund. Math. 127 (1987), no. 3, 225-239. MR 917147 (88m:04001)

2.
Tomek Bartoszyński and Haim Judah, Set theory: On the structure of the real line, A K Peters Ltd., Wellesley, MA, 1995. MR 1350295 (96k:03002)

3.
James E. Baumgartner and Alan D. Taylor, Partition theorems and ultrafilters, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 241 (1978), 283-309. MR 0491193 (58:10458)

4.
Andreas Blass, Selective ultrafilters and homogeneity, Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 38 (1988), no. 3, 215-255. MR 942525 (89h:03081)

5.
Jörg Brendle, Otmar Spinas, and Yi Zhang, Uniformity of the meager ideal and maximal cofinitary groups, J. Algebra 232 (2000), no. 1, 209-225. MR 1783921 (2001i:03097)

6.
B. Kastermans, J. Steprāns, and Y. Zhang, Analytic and coanalytic families of almost disjoint functions, J. Symbolic Logic 73 (2008), no. 4, 1158-1172. MR 2467209

7.
Bart Kastermans, Very mad families, Advances in logic, Contemp. Math., vol. 425, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2007, pp. 105-112. MR 2322366 (2008c:03053)

8.
A. R. D. Mathias, Happy families, Ann. Math. Logic 12 (1977), no. 1, 59-111. MR 0491197 (58:10462)

9.
Arnold W. Miller, Arnie Miller's problem list, Set theory of the reals (Ramat Gan, 1991), Israel Math. Conf. Proc., vol. 6, Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat Gan, 1993, pp. 645-654. MR 1234292 (94m:03073)

10.
Yi Zhang, On a class of m.a.d. families, J. Symbolic Logic 64 (1999), no. 2, 737-746. MR 1777782 (2001m:03104)

11.
-, Towards a problem of E. van Douwen and A. Miller, MLQ Math. Log. Q. 45 (1999), no. 2, 183-188. MR 1686175 (2000d:03113)


Similar Articles:

Retrieve articles in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society with MSC (2010): 03E17, 03E15, 03E05, 03E50

Retrieve articles in all Journals with MSC (2010): 03E17, 03E15, 03E05, 03E50


Additional Information:

Dilip Raghavan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2E4
Email: raghavan@math.toronto.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-04975-X
PII: S 0002-9947(2010)04975-X
Keywords: Maximal almost disjoint family, cardinal invariants, analytic set
Received by editor(s): July 22, 2008
Posted: June 11, 2010
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-0456653.
Copyright of article: Copyright 2010, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




AMS and Social Media LinkedIn Facebook Podcasts Twitter YouTube RSS Feeds Blogs Wikipedia