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Discontinuous Homomorphisms of $C(X)$ with $2^{\aleph_0}>\aleph_2$

Logic 2019-05-27 v2

Abstract

Assume that MM is a c.t.m. of ZFC+CHZFC+CH containing a simplified (ω1,2)(\omega_1,2)-morass, PMP\in M is the poset adding 3\aleph_3 generic reals and GG is PP-generic over MM. In MM we construct a function between sets of terms in the forcing language, that interpreted in M[G]M[G] is an R\mathbb R-linear order-preserving monomorphism from the finite elements of an ultrapower of the reals, over a non-principal ultrafilter on ω\omega, into the Esterle algebra of formal power series. Therefore it is consistent that 20=32^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_3 and, for any infinite compact Hausdorff space XX, there exists a discontinuous homomorphism of C(X)C(X), the algebra of continuous real-valued functions on XX. For nNn\in \mathbb N, If MM contains a simplified (ω1,n)(\omega_1,n)-morass, then in the Cohen extension of MM adding n\aleph_n generic reals there exists a discontinuous homomorphism of C(X)C(X), for any infinite compact Hausdorff space XX.

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@article{arxiv.1701.08662,
  title  = {Discontinuous Homomorphisms of $C(X)$ with $2^{\aleph_0}>\aleph_2$},
  author = {Bob A. Dumas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08662},
  year   = {2019}
}