The open dihypergraph dichotomy for generalized Baire spaces and its applications

The open graph dichotomy for a subset $X$ of the Baire space ${}^\omega\omega$ states that any open graph on $X$ either admits a coloring in countably many colors or contains a perfect complete subgraph. This strong version of the open graph axiom for $X$ was introduced by Feng and Todor\v{c}evi\'c to investigate definable sets of reals. We first show that its recent generalization to infinite dimensional directed hypergraphs by Carroy, Miller and Soukup holds for all subsets of the Baire space in Solovay's model, extending a theorem of Feng in dimension $2$. The main theorem lifts this result to generalized Baire spaces ${}^\kappa\kappa$ in two ways. (1) For any regular infinite cardinal $\kappa$, the following holds after a L\'evy collapse of an inaccessible cardinal $\lambda>\kappa$ to $\kappa^+$. Suppose that $H$ is a $\kappa$-dimensional box-open directed hypergraph on a subset of ${}^\kappa\kappa$ such that $H$ is definable from a $\kappa$-sequence of ordinals. Then either $H$ admits a coloring in $\kappa$ many colors or there exists a continuous homomorphism from a canonical large directed hypergraph to $H$. (2) If $\lambda$ is a Mahlo cardinal, then the previous result extends to all box-open directed hypergraphs on any subset of ${}^\kappa\kappa$ that is definable from a $\kappa$-sequence of ordinals. We derive several applications to definable subsets of generalized Baire spaces, among them variants of the Hurewicz dichotomy that characterizes subsets of $K_\sigma$ sets, an asymmetric version of the Baire property, an analogue of the Kechris-Louveau-Woodin dichotomy that characterizes when two disjoint sets can be separated by an $F_\sigma$ set, the determinacy of V\"a\"an\"anen's perfect set game for all subsets of ${}^\kappa\kappa$, and an analogue of the Jayne-Rogers theorem that characterizes functions which are $\sigma$-continuous with closed pieces.Comment: 115 pages, 11 figures. Added new results in Section 6.2.2 which strengthen and replace the results in Section 6.3 of the previous version. Improved results in Section 5.3. Various other minor corrections. Comments are welcom

Four-manifolds, geometries and knots

The goal of this book is to characterize algebraically the closed 4-manifolds that fibre nontrivially or admit geometries in the sense of Thurston, or which are obtained by surgery on 2-knots, and to provide a reference for the topology of such manifolds and knots. The first chapter is purely algebraic. The rest of the book may be divided into three parts: general results on homotopy and surgery (Chapters 2-6), geometries and geometric decompositions (Chapters 7-13), and 2-knots (Chapters 14-18). In many cases the Euler characteristic, fundamental group and Stiefel-Whitney classes together form a complete system of invariants for the homotopy type of such manifolds, and the possible values of the invariants can be described explicitly. The strongest results are characterizations of manifolds which fibre homotopically over S^1 or an aspherical surface (up to homotopy equivalence) and infrasolvmanifolds (up to homeomorphism). As a consequence 2-knots whose groups are poly-Z are determined up to Gluck reconstruction and change of orientations by their groups alone. This book arose out of two earlier books "2-Knots and their Groups" and "The Algebraic Characterization of Geometric 4-Manifolds", published by Cambridge University Press for the Australian Mathematical Society and for the London Mathematical Society, respectively. About a quarter of the present text has been taken from these books, and I thank Cambridge University Press for their permission to use this material. The book has been revised in March 2007. For details see the end of the preface.Comment: This is the revised version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs in March 200

Superperfect pairs of trees in graphs

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