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Survey on the Tukey theory of ultrafilters
This article surveys results regarding the Tukey theory of ultrafilters on
countable base sets. The driving forces for this investigation are Isbell's
Problem and the question of how closely related the Rudin-Keisler and Tukey
reducibilities are. We review work on the possible structures of cofinal types
and conditions which guarantee that an ultrafilter is below the Tukey maximum.
The known canonical forms for cofinal maps on ultrafilters are reviewed, as
well as their applications to finding which structures embed into the Tukey
types of ultrafilters. With the addition of some Ramsey theory, fine analyses
of the structures at the bottom of the Tukey hierarchy are made.Comment: 25 page
Tukey types of ultrafilters
We investigate the structure of the Tukey types of ultrafilters on countable
sets partially ordered by reverse inclusion. A canonization of cofinal maps
from a p-point into another ultrafilter is obtained. This is used in particular
to study the Tukey types of p-points and selective ultrafilters. Results fall
into three main categories: comparison to a basis element for selective
ultrafilters, embeddings of chains and antichains into the Tukey types, and
Tukey types generated by block-basic ultrafilters on FIN.Comment: 33 pages, to appear in 2012 in the Illinois Journal of Mathematic
Forbidden rectangles in compacta
We establish negative results about "rectangular" local bases in compacta.
For example, there is no compactum where all points have local bases of cofinal
type \omega x \omega_2. For another, the compactum \beta\omega has no
nontrivially rectangular local bases, and the same is consistently true of
\beta\omega \ \omega: no local base in \beta\omega has cofinal type \kappa x c
if \kappa < m_{\sigma-n-linked} for some n in [1,\omega). Also, CH implies that
every local base in \beta\omega \ \omega has the same cofinal type as one in
\beta\omega.
We also answer a question of Dobrinen and Todorcevic about cofinal types of
ultrafilters: the Fubini square of a filter on \omega always has the same
cofinal type as its Fubini cube. Moreover, the Fubini product of nonprincipal
P-filters on \omega is commutative modulo cofinal equivalence.Comment: 15 page
Spectra of Tukey types of ultrafilters on Boolean algebras
Extending recent investigations on the structure of Tukey types of
ultrafilters on to Boolean algebras in general, we
classify the spectra of Tukey types of ultrafilters for several classes of
Boolean algebras, including interval algebras, tree algebras, and pseudo-tree
algebras.Comment: 18 page
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