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Countable filters on ω

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Otmar Spinas*
Affiliation:
Mathematik, ETH Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
*
Humboldt-Universitätzu Berlin, Institute für Mathematik, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany E-mail: spinas@math.ethz.ch

Abstract

Two countable filters on ω are incompatible if they have no common infinite pseudointersection. Letting (Pf) denote the minimal size of a maximal uncountable family of pairwise incompatible countable filters on ω, we prove the consistency of t < a(Pf).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1999

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