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Miguel A. Cardona

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Tukey-order with models on Pawlikowski's theorems

In J. Symbolic Logic,51(4): 957-968, 1986, Pawlikowski proved that, if $r$ is a random real over $\mathbf{N}$, and $c$ is Cohen real over $\mathbf{N}[r]$, then (a) in $\mathbf{N}[r][c]$ there is a Cohen real over $\mathbf{N}[c]$, and (b) $2^ω\cap\mathbf{N}[c]\notin\mathcal{N}\cap\mathbf{N}[r][c]$, so in $\mathbf{N}[r][c]$ there is no random real over $\mathbf{N}[c]$. To prove this, Pawlikowski proposes the following notion: Given two models $\mathbf{N}\subseteq \mathbf{M}$ of ZFC, we associate with a cardinal characteristic $\mathfrak{x}$ of the continuum, a sentence $\mathfrak{x}_\mathbf{N}^\mathbf{M}$ saying that in $\mathbf{M}$, the reals in $\mathbf{N}$ give an example of a family fulfilling the requirements of the cardinal. So to prove (a) and (b), it suffices to prove that (a') $\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{M})_{\mathbf{N}[c]}^{\mathbf{M}[c]}\Rightarrow\mathrm{cof}(\mathcal{M})_{\mathbf{N}}^{\mathbf{M}}\Rightarrow\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{N})_{\mathbf{N}}^{\mathbf{M}}$, and (b') $\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{M})_\mathbf{N}^\mathbf{M}\Rightarrow\mathrm{add}(\mathcal{M})_{\mathbf{N}}^{\mathbf{M}}\Rightarrow\mathrm{non}(\mathcal{M})_{\mathbf{N}[c]}^{\mathbf{M}[c]}\Rightarrow\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{N})_{\mathbf{N}[c]}^{\mathbf{M}[c]}$. In this paper, we introduce the notion of Tukey-order with models, which expands the concept of Tukey-order introduced by Vojtáš (Israel Math. Conf. Proc. 6: 619-643, 1991) to prove expressions of the form $\mathfrak{x}_\mathbf{N}^\mathbf{M}\Rightarrow\mathfrak{y}_\mathbf{N}^\mathbf{M}$. In particular, we show (a') and (b') using Tukey-order with models.

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Filter-linkedness and its effect on preservation of cardinal characteristics

We introduce the property ``$F$-linked'' of subsets of posets for a given free filter $F$ on the natural numbers, and define the properties ``$μ$-$F$-linked'' and ``$θ$-$F$-Knaster'' for posets in a natural way. We show that $θ$-$F$-Knaster posets preserve strong types of unbounded families and of maximal almost disjoint families. Concerning iterations of such posets, we develop a general technique to construct $θ$-$\mathrm{Fr}$-Knaster posets (where $\mathrm{Fr}$ is the Frechet ideal) via matrix iterations of ${<}θ$-ultrafilter-linked posets (restricted to some level of the matrix). This is applied to prove consistency results about Cichoń's diagram (without using large cardinals) and to prove the consistency of the fact that, for each Yorioka ideal, the four cardinal invariants associated with it are pairwise different. At the end, we show that three strongly compact cardinals are enough to force that Cichoń's diagram can be separated into $10$ different values.

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On cardinal characteristics associated with the strong measure zero ideal

Let $\mathcal{SN}$ be the strong measure zero $σ$-ideal. We prove a result providing bounds for $\mathrm{cof}(\mathcal{SN})$ which implies Yorioka's characterization of the cofinality of the strong measure zero. In addition, we use forcing matrix iterations to construct a model of ZFC that satisfies $\mathrm{add}(\mathcal{SN})=\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{SN})<\mathrm{non}(\mathcal{SN})<\mathrm{cof}(\mathcal{SN})$.

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The covering number of the strong measure zero ideal can be above almost everything else

We show that certain type of tree forcings, including Sacks forcing, increases the covering of the strong measure zero ideal $\mathcal{SN}$. As a consequence, in Sacks model, such covering number is equal to the size of the continuum, which indicates that this covering number is consistently larger than any other classical cardinal invariant of the continuum. Even more, Sacks forcing can be used to force that $\mathrm{non}(\mathcal{SN})<\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{SN})<\mathrm{cof}(\mathcal{SN})$, which is the first consistency result where more than two cardinal invariants associated with $\mathcal{SN}$ are pairwise different. Another consequence is that $\mathcal{SN}\subseteq s^0$ in ZFC where $s^0$ denotes the Marczewski's ideal.

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On cardinal characteristics of Yorioka ideals

Yorioka [J. Symbolic Logic 67(4):1373-1384, 2002] introduced a class of ideals (parametrized by reals) on the Cantor space to prove that the relation between the size of the continuum and the cofinality of the strong measure zero ideal on the real line cannot be decided in ZFC. We construct a matrix iteration of ccc posets to force that, for many ideals in that class, their associated cardinal invariants (i.e. additivity, covering, uniformity and cofinality) are pairwise different. In addition, we show that, consistently, the additivity and cofinality of Yorioka ideals does not coincide with the additivity and cofinality (respectively) of the ideal of Lebesgue measure zero subsets of the real line.

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