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High dimensional Ellentuck spaces and initial chains in the Tukey structure of non-p-points

Logic 2014-06-06 v1

Abstract

The generic ultrafilter G2\mathcal{G}_2 forced by P(ω×ω)/(\mathcal{P}(\omega\times\omega)/(Fin\otimesFin) was recently proved to be neither maximum nor minimum in the Tukey order of ultrafilters (in a recent paper of Blass, Dobrinen, and Raghavan), but it was left open where exactly in the Tukey order it lies. We prove that G2\mathcal{G}_2 is in fact Tukey minimal over its projected Ramsey ultrafilter. Furthermore, we prove that for each k2k\ge 2, the collection of all nonprincipal ultrafilters Tukey reducible to the generic ultrafilter Gk\mathcal{G}_k forced by P(ωk)/\mathcal{P}(\omega^k)/Fink^{\otimes k} forms a chain of length kk. Essential to the proof is the extraction of a dense subset Ek\mathcal{E}_k from (Fink)+^{\otimes k})^+ which we prove to be a topological Ramsey space. The spaces Ek\mathcal{E}_k, k2k\ge 2, form a hiearchy of high dimensional Ellentuck spaces. New Ramsey-classification theorems for equivalence relations on fronts on Ek\mathcal{E}_k are proved, extending the Pudlak-Rodl Theorem for fronts on the Ellentuck space, which are applied to find the Tukey structure below Gk\mathcal{G}_k.

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@article{arxiv.1406.1291,
  title  = {High dimensional Ellentuck spaces and initial chains in the Tukey structure of non-p-points},
  author = {Natasha Dobrinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1291},
  year   = {2014}
}

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28 pp