Strongly almost disjoint sets and weakly uniform bases
Authors:
Z. T. Balogh, S. W. Davis, W. Just, S. Shelah and P. J. Szeptycki
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 4971-4987
MSC (2000):
Primary 03E05, 03E35, 03E75, 54D70
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-00-02599-X
Published electronically:
June 20, 2000
MathSciNet review:
1707497
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A combinatorial principle CECA is formulated and its equivalence with GCH + certain weakenings of 
for singular 
is proved. CECA is used to show that certain ``almost point-
'' families can be refined to point-
families by removing a small set from each member of the family. This theorem in turn is used to show the consistency of ``every first countable 
-space with a weakly uniform base has a point-countable base.''
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Z. T. Balogh
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056
Email:
ztbalogh@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
S. W. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056
Email:
swdavis@miavx1.muohio.edu
W. Just
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701
Email:
just@math.ohiou.edu
S. Shelah
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University, Givat Ram, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Email:
shelah@math.huji.ac.il
P. J. Szeptycki
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701
Email:
szeptyck@math.ohiou.edu
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-00-02599-X
Keywords:
GCH,
$\Box$,
strongly almost disjoint families,
weakly uniform base,
point countable base
Received by editor(s):
March 17, 1998
Published electronically:
June 20, 2000
Additional Notes:
The first author’s research was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9623391. The third author’s research was done during visits at Rutgers University and The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, which were supported by NSF grant DMS-9704477 and the Landau Center. The fourth author was partially supported by the Israel Basic Research Fund. This is publication number 674 in Shelah’s publication list.
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