The complexity of the embeddability relation between torsion-free abelian groups of uncountable size

We prove that for every uncountable cardinal $\kappa$ such that $\kappa^{<\kappa}=\kappa$, the quasi-order of embeddability on the $\kappa$-space of $\kappa$-sized graphs Borel reduces to the embeddability on the $\kappa$-space of $\kappa$-sized torsion-free abelian groups. Then we use the same techniques to prove that the former Borel reduces to the embeddability on the $\kappa$-space of $\kappa$-sized $R$-modules, for every $\mathbb{S}$-cotorsion-free ring $R$ of cardinality less than the continuum. As a consequence we get that all the previous are complete $\boldsymbol{\Sigma}^1_1$ quasi-orders.Comment: 14 pages, final versio

Invariant universality for quandles and fields

We show that the embeddability relations for countable quandles and for countable fields of any given characteristic other than 2 are maximally complex in a strong sense: they are invariantly universal. This notion from the theory of Borel reducibility states that any analytic quasi-order on a standard Borel space essentially appears as the restriction of the embeddability relation to an isomorphism-invariant Borel set. As an intermediate step we show that the embeddability relation of countable quandles is a complete analytic quasi-order

Club guessing and the universal models

We survey the use of club guessing and other pcf constructs in the context of showing that a given partially ordered class of objects does not have a largest, or a universal element