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Initial Tukey structure below a stable ordered-union ultrafilter

Logic 2024-10-08 v1

Abstract

Answering a question of Dobrinen and Todorcevic, we prove that below any stable ordered-union ultrafilter U\mathcal{U}, there are exactly four nonprincipal Tukey classes: [U],[Umin],[Umax][\mathcal{U}], [\mathcal{U}_{\operatorname{min}}], [\mathcal{U}_{\operatorname{max}}], and [Uminmax][\mathcal{U}_{\operatorname{minmax}}]. This parallels the classification of ultrafilters Rudin-Keisler below U\mathcal{U} by Blass. A key step in the proof involves modifying the proof of a canonization theorem of Klein and Spinas for Borel functions on FIN[]\mathrm{FIN}^{[\infty]} to obtain a simplified canonization theorem for fronts on FIN[]\mathrm{FIN}^{[\infty]}, recovering Lefmann's canonization for fronts of finite uniformity rank as a special case. We use this to classify the Rudin-Keisler classes of all ultrafilters Tukey below U\mathcal{U}, which is then applied to achieve the main result.

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@article{arxiv.2410.04326,
  title  = {Initial Tukey structure below a stable ordered-union ultrafilter},
  author = {Tan Özalp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04326},
  year   = {2024}
}

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