Nontrivial automorphisms of $\mathcal P(\omega)/\mathrm{Fin}$ in Cohen models
Logic
2026-03-10 v1 General Topology
Abstract
We show that if Cohen reals are added to a model of , then there are nontrivial automorphisms of in the extension. Under some further hypotheses on the ground model, namely the existence of long enough sage Davies trees (which follows from plus for every with ), we prove the same result for cardinals as well. This extends a result a Shelah and Stepr\={a}ns, who proved the result for .
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@article{arxiv.2603.07214,
title = {Nontrivial automorphisms of $\mathcal P(\omega)/\mathrm{Fin}$ in Cohen models},
author = {Will Brian and Alan Dow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07214},
year = {2026}
}