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Quite free complicated abelian group, PCF and Black Boxes

Logic 2019-01-29 v2

Abstract

We like to build Abelian groups (or R-modules) which on the one hand are quite free, say ω+1\aleph_{\omega + 1}-free, and on the other hand, are complicated in suitable sense. We choose as our test problem having no non-trivial homomorphism to ZZ (known classically for 1\aleph_1-free, recently for n\aleph_n-free). We succeed to prove the existence of even ω1n\aleph_{\omega_1 \cdot n}-free ones. This requires building n-dimensional black boxes, which are quite free. Thus combinatorics is of self interest and we believe will be useful also for other purposes. On the other hand, modulo suitable large cardinals, we prove that it is consistent that every ω1ω\aleph_{\omega_1 \cdot \omega}-free Abelian group has non-trivial homomorphisms to Z.

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@article{arxiv.1404.2775,
  title  = {Quite free complicated abelian group, PCF and Black Boxes},
  author = {Saharon Shelah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2775},
  year   = {2019}
}