Combinatorial Aspects of the Splitting Number

Shimon Garti, Saharon Shelah

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Abstract

This paper deals with the splitting number s and polarized partition relations. In the first section we define the notion of strong splitting families, and prove that its existence is equivalent to the failure of the polarized relation( s ω) → ( s ω) 1,1 2. We show that the existence of a strong splitting family is consistent with ZFC, and that the strong splitting number equals the splitting number, when it exists. Consequently, we can put some restriction on the possibility that s is singular. In the second section we deal with the polarized relation under the weak diamond, and we prove that the strong polarized relation ω) → ( ω) 1,1 2 is consistent with ZFC, even when cf (2 ω1 (hence the weak diamond holds).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)709-717
Number of pages9
JournalAnnals of Combinatorics
Volume16
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2012

Keywords

  • Mathias forcing
  • partition calculus
  • splitting number
  • weak diamond

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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