Sacks Forcing and the Shrink Wrapping Property

We consider a property stronger than the Sacks property, called the shrink wrapping property, which holds between the ground model and each Sacks forcing extension. Unlike the Sacks property, the shrink wrapping property does not hold between the ground model and a Silver forcing extension. We also show an application of the shrink wrapping property.Comment: 16 page

Definable maximal discrete sets in forcing extensions

Let $\mathcal R$ be a $\Sigma^1_1$ binary relation, and recall that a set $A$ is $\mathcal R$-discrete if no two elements of $A$ are related by $\mathcal R$. We show that in the Sacks and Miller forcing extensions of $L$ there is a $\Delta^1_2$ maximal $\mathcal{R}$-discrete set. We use this to answer in the negative the main question posed in [5] by showing that in the Sacks and Miller extensions there is a $\Pi^1_1$ maximal orthogonal family ("mof") of Borel probability measures on Cantor space. A similar result is also obtained for $\Pi^1_1$ mad families. By contrast, we show that if there is a Mathias real over $L$ then there are no $\Sigma^1_2$ mofs.Comment: 16 page