Homogeneous forcing
Abstract
Assume (usually or an inaccessible). We shall deal with iterated forcings preserving and not collapsing cardinals along a linear order . A sufficient condition for this, which we will focus on, is for the forcings to have support and the -cc, and be strategically -complete. The aim is to have homogeneous forcings, so that the iteration has many automorphisms. In addition to the inherent interest, such iterations are helpful for considering some natural ideals on , in order to get a model of ``modulo this ideal, every set is equivalent to a -Borel one." But here we only have many automorphisms of the index set and therefore of the iteration of iterands ; we do not necessarily have homogeneity of , and we do not have automorphisms mapping other names of -reals onto each other. %\notemgrimes{What are the other names? Where do they come from?} However, for some reasonable forcing notions, there are no other -reals! This was the reason for introducing and investigating saccharinity in earlier works with Jakob Kellner and with Haim Horowitz.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.17949,
title = {Homogeneous forcing},
author = {Saharon Shelah},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17949},
year = {2026}
}