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Stable ordered union ultrafilters and $\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{M})<\mathfrak c$

Logic 2020-06-02 v3

Abstract

A union ultrafilter is an ultrafilter over the finite subsets of ω\omega that has a base of sets of the form FU(X)\mathrm{FU}(X), where XX is an infinite pairwise disjoint family and FU(X)={FF[X]<ω{}}\mathrm{FU}(X)=\{\bigcup F\big|F\in[X]^{<\omega}\setminus\{\varnothing\}\}. The existence of these ultrafilters is not provable from the ZFC\mathsf{ZFC} axioms, but is known to follow from the assumption that cov(M)=c\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{M})=\mathfrak c. In this article we obtain various models of ZFC\mathsf{ZFC} that satisfy the existence of union ultrafilters while at the same time cov(M)<c\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{M})<\mathfrak c.

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@article{arxiv.1810.08636,
  title  = {Stable ordered union ultrafilters and $\mathrm{cov}(\mathcal{M})<\mathfrak c$},
  author = {David José Fernández-Bretón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.08636},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages, final version

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