Projective well-orders and coanalytic witnesses
Abstract
We further develop a forcing notion known as Coding with Perfect Trees and show that this poset preserves, in a strong sense, definable -points, definable tight MAD families and definable selective independent families. As a result, we obtain a model in which , each of , , has a witness and there is a 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 well-order of the reals is consistent with and each of the following: , , , 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