Cichoń’s maximum without large cardinals

  • Martin Goldstern

    TU Wien, Austria
  • Jakob Kellner

    TU Wien, Austria
  • Diego A. Mejía

    Shizuoka University, Japan
  • Saharon Shelah

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
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Abstract

Cichoń’s diagram lists twelve cardinal characteristics (and the provable inequalities between them) associated with the ideals of null sets, meager sets, countable sets, and -compact subsets of the irrationals.

It is consistent that all entries of Cichoń’s diagram are pairwise different (apart from and , which are provably equal to other entries). However, the consistency proofs so far required large cardinal assumptions.

In this work, we show the consistency without such assumptions.

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Martin Goldstern, Jakob Kellner, Diego A. Mejía, Saharon Shelah, Cichoń’s maximum without large cardinals. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 24 (2022), no. 11, pp. 3951–3967

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1178