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More notions of forcing add a square

Logic 2026-07-26 v1

Abstract

Foreman and Magidor showed that the continuum hypothesis implies the existence of a countably-closed 2\aleph_2-cc forcing notion P\mathbb P for adding 1\square_{\aleph_1}. Here, we show that P\mathbb P may consistently be realized as an 2\aleph_2-Souslin tree. More generally, we prove that λ\square_\lambda may be added by a λ+\lambda^+-Souslin tree, providing the first analog of the Foreman--Magidor forcing at the level of successors of singular cardinals. Our construction is uniform and extends to inaccessible cardinals as well.

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@article{arxiv.2607.23637,
  title  = {More notions of forcing add a square},
  author = {Yair Hayut and Assaf Rinot and Zhixing You},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.23637},
  year   = {2026}
}