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Around Eggleston Theorem

Logic 2024-03-04 v3

Abstract

The motivation of this work are the two classical theorems on inscribing rectangles and squares into large subsets of the plane, namely Eggleston Theorem and Mycielski Theorem. Using Shoenfield Absoluteness Theorem we prove that for every Borel subset of the plane with uncountably many positive (with respect to measure or category) vertical section contains a rectangle P×BP\times B where PP is perfect and BB is Borel and positive. We also obtained a variant of Eggleston Theorem regarding the σ\sigma-ideal (E)\mathcal(E) generated by closed sets of measure zero. Furthermore we proved that every comeager (resp. conull) subset of the plane contains a rectangle [T]×H[T]\times H, where TT is a Spinas tree containing a Silver tree and HH is comeager (resp. conull). Moreover we obtained a common generalization of Eggleston Theorem and Mycielski Theorem stating that every comeager (resp. conull) subset of the plane contains a rectangle [T]×H[T]\times H modulo diagonal, where TT is a uniformly perfect tree, HH is comeager (resp. conull) and [T]H[T]\subseteq H.

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@article{arxiv.2307.07020,
  title  = {Around Eggleston Theorem},
  author = {Marcin Michalski and Robert Rałowski and Szymon Żeberski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.07020},
  year   = {2024}
}
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