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Chang's Conjecture and semiproperness of nonreasonable posets

Logic 2018-02-19 v2

Abstract

Let Q\mathbb{Q} denote the poset which adds a Cohen real then shoots a club through the complement of ([ω2]ω)V\big( [\omega_2]^\omega \big)^V with countable conditions. We prove that the version of Strong Chang's Conjecture from \cite{MR2965421} implies semiproperness of Q\mathbb{Q}, and that semiproperness of Q\mathbb{Q}---in fact semiproperness of any poset which is sufficiently \emph{nonreasonable} in the sense of Foreman-Magidor~\cite{MR1359154}---implies the version of Strong Chang's Conjecture from \cite{MR2723878} and \cite{MR1261218}. In particular, semiproperness of Q\mathbb{Q} has large cardinal strength, which answers a question of Friedman-Krueger~\cite{MR2276627}. One corollary of our work is that the version of Strong Chang's Conjecture from \cite{MR2965421} does not imply the existence of a precipitous ideal on ω1\omega_1.

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@article{arxiv.1605.00296,
  title  = {Chang's Conjecture and semiproperness of nonreasonable posets},
  author = {Sean D. Cox},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00296},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Added a new section (Section 3) about relationship between MM, dagger principle, and the principle $\text{SCC}^{\text{cof}}_{\text{gap}}$