On closed sets of ordinals
On closed sets of ordinals
复制标题
关于序数的闭集
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
1974
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
H. Friedman
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
H. Friedman
We prove that every stationary set of countable ordinals contains arbitrarily long countable closed subsets. Call a set A of ordinals closed if and only if every nonempty subset of A which has an upper bound in A has its least upper bound in A. It is well known that there are BC a1 such that neither B nor a,1-B contains an uncountable closed subset. A consequence of what we prove here is that for every BC w1, either B or a),-B contains arbitrarily long countable closed subsets. Call a set A of ordinals K-stationary if and only if Ac K and A intersects every closed subset of K of power K. We can restate the above wellknown theorem as follows: There is an A such that A and wo1 -A are both wl-stationary.2 We will prove here that every w),-stationary set contains arbitrarily long, countable, closed subsets. Is there a cardinal K such that for all AC K, either A or K-A contains an uncountable closed subset? Is this true for K=aw2? Karel Prikry and the author noticed that, in any case, the statement for K=W)2 cannot be proved true in ZFC.3 THEOREM. Every wl-stationary set contains arbitrarily long countable closed subsets. PROOF. Let A be w),-stationary. We prove by induction on o< a)1 that A has a closed subset of length a. Let the induction hypothesis be that Received by the editors November 30, 1972. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 04A20; Secondary 02K02, 02K35.