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The open dihypergraph dichotomy for generalized Baire spaces and its applications

Logic 2023-12-06 v3 General Topology

Abstract

The open graph dichotomy for a subset XX of the Baire space ωω{}^\omega\omega states that any open graph on XX either admits a coloring in countably many colors or contains a perfect complete subgraph. This strong version of the open graph axiom for XX was introduced by Feng and Todor\v{c}evi\'c to study definable sets of reals. We first show that its recent generalization to infinite dimensional directed hypergraphs by Carroy, Miller and Soukup holds for all subsets of the Baire space in Solovay's model, extending a theorem of Feng in dimension 22. The main theorem lifts this result to generalized Baire spaces κκ{}^\kappa\kappa in two ways. (1) For any regular infinite cardinal κ\kappa, the following holds after a L\'evy collapse of an inaccessible cardinal λ>κ\lambda>\kappa to κ+\kappa^+. Suppose that HH is a κ\kappa-dimensional box-open directed hypergraph on a subset of κκ{}^\kappa\kappa such that HH is definable from a κ\kappa-sequence of ordinals. Then either HH admits a coloring in κ\kappa many colors or there exists a continuous homomorphism from a canonical large directed hypergraph to HH. (2) If λ\lambda is a Mahlo cardinal, then the previous result extends to all box-open directed hypergraphs on any subset of κκ{}^\kappa\kappa that is definable from a κ\kappa-sequence of ordinals. This approach is applied to solve several problems about definable subsets of generalized Baire spaces. For instance, we obtain variants of the Hurewicz dichotomy that characterizes subsets of KσK_\sigma sets, strong variants of the Kechris-Louveau-Woodin dichotomy that characterizes when two disjoint sets can be separated by an FσF_\sigma set, the determinacy of V\"a\"an\"anen's perfect set game for all subsets of κκ{}^\kappa\kappa, an asymmetric version of the Baire property and an analogue of the Jayne-Rogers theorem that characterizes GδG_\delta-measurable functions.

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@article{arxiv.2301.13274,
  title  = {The open dihypergraph dichotomy for generalized Baire spaces and its applications},
  author = {Philipp Schlicht and Dorottya Sziráki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13274},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

128 pages, 14 figures. Added Sections 3.4 and Sections 6.6. Added new results in Section 6.1. Strengthened results at the end of Sections 6.2.a and 6.2.b. Updated Section 7 on open problems. Other minor corrections

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