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On measures induced by forcing names for ultrafilters

Logic 2021-05-13 v1

Abstract

We study the interplay between properties of measures on a Boolean algebra A and forcing names for ultrafilters on A. We show that several well known measure theoretic properties of Boolean algebras (such as supporting a strictly positive measure or carrying only separable measures) have quite natural characterizations in the forcing language. We show some applications of this approach. In particular, we reprove a theorem of Kunen saying that in the classical random model there are no towers of height ω2\omega_2.

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@article{arxiv.2105.05339,
  title  = {On measures induced by forcing names for ultrafilters},
  author = {Piotr Borodulin-Nadzieja and Katarzyna Cegiełka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05339},
  year   = {2021}
}