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Can ideals without ccc be interesting?
AbstractWe study those ideals I of sets in a perfect Polish space X which admit a Borel measurable f: X→X with f-1[\s{x\s}]∉I for each xϵX. A stronger version of that property (when, additionally, X is a group and I an invariant ideal) states that there exist a Borel set B∉I and a perfect P⊆X, such that \s{B + x:x ϵP\s} forms a disjoint family
Rothberger gaps in fragmented ideals
The~\emph{Rothberger number} of a definable
ideal on is the least cardinal such that there
exists a Rothberger gap of type in the quotient algebra
. We investigate for a subclass of the ideals, the fragmented ideals,
and prove that for some of these ideals, like the linear growth ideal, the
Rothberger number is while for others, like the polynomial growth
ideal, it is above the additivity of measure. We also show that it is
consistent that there are infinitely many (even continuum many) different
Rothberger numbers associated with fragmented ideals.Comment: 28 page
Lebesgue's Density Theorem and definable selectors for ideals
We introduce a notion of density point and prove results analogous to
Lebesgue's density theorem for various well-known ideals on Cantor space and
Baire space. In fact, we isolate a class of ideals for which our results hold.
In contrast to these results, we show that there is no reasonably definable
selector that chooses representatives for the equivalence relation on the Borel
sets of having countable symmetric difference. In other words, there is no
notion of density which makes the ideal of countable sets satisfy an analogue
to the density theorem. The proofs of the positive results use only elementary
combinatorics of trees, while the negative results rely on forcing arguments.Comment: 28 pages; minor corrections and a new introductio
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