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Projective well-orders and coanalytic witnesses

Logic 2022-02-25 v2

Abstract

We further develop a forcing notion known as Coding with Perfect Trees and show that this poset preserves, in a strong sense, definable PP-points, definable tight MAD families and definable selective independent families. As a result, we obtain a model in which a=u=i=1<20=2\mathfrak{a}=\mathfrak{u}=\mathfrak{i}=\aleph_1<2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_2, each of a\mathfrak{a}, u\mathfrak{u}, i\mathfrak{i} has a Π11\Pi^1_1 witness and there is a Δ31\Delta^1_3 well-order of the reals. Note that both the complexity of the witnesses of the above combinatorial cardinal characteristics, as well as the complexity of the well-order are optimal. In addition, we show that the existence of a Δ31\Delta^1_3 well-order of the reals is consistent with c=2\mathfrak{c}=\aleph_2 and each of the following: a=u<i\mathfrak{a}=\mathfrak{u}<\mathfrak{i}, a=i<u\mathfrak{a}=\mathfrak{i}<\mathfrak{u}, a<u=i\mathfrak{a}<\mathfrak{u}=\mathfrak{i}, where the smaller cardinal characteristics have co-analytic witnesses. Our methods allow the preservation of only sufficiently definable witnesses, which significantly differs from other preservation results of this type.

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@article{arxiv.2106.15359,
  title  = {Projective well-orders and coanalytic witnesses},
  author = {Jeffrey Bergfalk and Vera Fischer and Corey Bacal Switzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15359},
  year   = {2022}
}

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19 pages