Related papers: Long Borel Hierarchies

A classical theorem due to Borel asserts that any formal serie with real coefficients is the Taylor expansion of a germ of $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}- {\rm function}$. We study such a problem in the context of Lie algebras of vector fields or of…

Using the method of decisive creatures (math.LO/0601083) we show the consistency of "there is no increasing omega_2 --chain of Borel sets and non(N)=non(M)= omega_2=2^omega". Hence, consistently, there are no monotone hulls for the ideal M…

We investigate infinite-exponent partition relations on arbitrary relational structures, with a focus on linear orders and graphs. Any such relation contradicts the Axiom of Choice. We show that there are some such relations which are…

Following the paper~[3] by V\"{a}\"{a}n\"{a}nen and the author, we continue to investigate on the difference between Boolean-valued second-order logic and full second-order logic. We show that the compactness number of Boolean-valued…

Lie symmetries of systems of second-order linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients are exhaustively described over both the complex and real fields. The exact lower and upper bounds for the dimensions of the maximal…

We give an affirmative answer to a question of Gorelic \cite{Gorelic}, by showing it is consistent, relative to the existence of large cardinals, that there is a proper class of cardinals $\alpha$ with $cf(\alpha)=\omega_1$ and…

Assuming that ORD is $\omega +\omega $-Erd\"os we show that if a class forcing amenable to $L$ (an $L$-forcing) has a generic then it has one definable in a set-generic extension of $L[O^\#]$. In fact we may choose such a generic to be {\it…

Throughout, $T$ denotes a complete first-order theory in a countable language $L$ that has infinite models and $I(\aleph_0,T)$ denotes the number of countable models of $T$, up to an isomorphism. To determine $I(\aleph_0,T)$, it suffices to…

We consider a seemingly weaker form of $\Delta^1_1$ Turing determinacy. Let $2 \leq \rho < \omega_1^{\textrm{CK}}$, $\textrm{Weak-Turing-Det}_\rho (\Delta^1_1)$ is the statement: Every $\Delta^1_1$ set of reals cofinal in the Turing degrees…

In this article, we give a full description of the Wadge degrees of Borel functions from $\omega^\omega$ to a better quasi ordering $\mathcal{Q}$. More precisely, for any countable ordinal $\xi$, we show that the Wadge degrees of…

This paper answers three questions posed by the first author. In Theorem 2.6 we show that the family of strong measure zero subsets of {}^{omega_1}2 is 2^{aleph_1}-additive under GMA and CH. In Theorem 3.1 we prove that the generalized…

We prove that any countable support iteration formed with posets with $\omega_2$-p.i.c.\ has $\omega_2$-c.c., assuming CH in the ground model and assuming also that $\omega_1$ is not collapsed. This improves earlier results of Shelah by…

We investigate the relation of countable closed subsets of the reals with respect to continuous monotone embeddability; we show that there are exactly aleph_1 many equivalence classes with respect to this embeddability relation. This is an…

We consider two axioms of second-order arithmetic. These axioms assert, in two different ways, that infinite but narrow binary trees always have infinite paths. We show that both axioms are strictly weaker than Weak K\"onig's Lemma, and…

We consider $\omega^n$-automatic structures which are relational structures whose domain and relations are accepted by automata reading ordinal words of length $\omega^n$ for some integer $n\geq 1$. We show that all these structures are…

We study notions of generic and coarse computability in the context of computable structure theory. Our notions are stratified by the $\Sigma_\beta$ hierarchy. We focus on linear orderings. We show that at the $\Sigma_1$ level all linear…

Shelah has shown that there are no chains of length $\omega_3$ increasing modulo finite in ${}^{\omega_2}\omega_2$. We improve this result to sets. That is, we show that there are no chains of length $\omega_3$ in $[\omega_2]^{\aleph_2}$…

It is shown that if $A \subseteq \mathbb{R}^3$ is a Borel set of Hausdorff dimension $\dim A>1$, and if $\rho_{\theta}$ is orthogonal projection to the line spanned by $( \cos \theta, \sin \theta, 1 )$, then $\rho_{\theta}(A)$ has positive…

We give in this paper additional answers to questions of Lescow and Thomas [Logical Specifications of Infinite Computations, In:"A Decade of Concurrency", Springer LNCS 803 (1994), 583-621], proving new topological properties of omega…

We prove that it is relatively consistent with ZF + CH that there exist two models of cardinality \aleph_2 such that the second player has a winning strategy in the Ehrenfeucht-Fra\"iss\'e-game of length \omega_1 but there is no…