Strong Projective Witnesses
Logic
2026-01-14 v1
Abstract
We show Shelah's original creature forcing from 1984 strongly preserves tight mad families. In particular, answering questions of Fischer and Friedman and Friedman and Zdomskyy, we show the constellation is consistent with the existence of a wellorder of the reals and tight mad families of sizes which are -definable, respectively. Each of these projective definitions is of minimal possible complexity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.08718,
title = {Strong Projective Witnesses},
author = {Vera Fischer and Julia Millhouse},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08718},
year = {2026}
}
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40 pages, submitted