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In the present paper we investigate the class of compact trees, endowed with the coarse wedge topology, in the area of non-separable Banach spaces. We describe Valdivia compact trees in terms of inner structures and we characterize the…

We show that the independence complex of a tree is contractible if and only if it can be reduced to a path \( P_n \) with \( n \equiv 1 \pmod{3} \) by a sequence of truncation moves at branching points. As a consequence of our method, we…

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Answering some of the main questions from [MR13], we show that whenever $\kappa$ is a cardinal satisfying $\kappa^{< \kappa} = \kappa > \omega$, then the embeddability relation between $\kappa$-sized structures is strongly invariantly…

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