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Club Chang's Conjecture

Logic 2019-08-30 v4

Abstract

Chang's Conjecture (CC) asserts that for every F:[ω2]<ωω2F:[\omega_2]^{<\omega} \to \omega_2, there exists an XX that is closed under FF such that X=ω1|X|=\omega_1 and Xω1=ω|X \cap \omega_1| =\omega. By classic results of Silver and Donder, CC is equiconsistent with an ω1\omega_1-Erdos cardinal. Using stronger large cardinal assumptions (between o(κ)=κ+o(\kappa) = \kappa^+ and o(κ)=κ++o(\kappa) = \kappa^{++}), we prove that it is consistent to also require that XX contains a closed unbounded set of ordinals in sup(Xω2)\text{sup}(X \cap \omega_2). We denote this stronger principle \textbf{Club-CC}, and also show that, unlike CC, Club-CC implies failure of certain weak square principles.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1809.09280,
  title  = {Club Chang's Conjecture},
  author = {Sean Cox and Saharon Shelah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09280},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Theorem 12, and the proof of Claim 13, are not correct (thanks to Omer Ben-Neria for pointing this out). The notion in Definition 7 is inconsistent with ZFC

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