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Diamonds on trees

Logic 2026-02-17 v2

Abstract

We generalize the diamond principle and its variants using the notion of stationarity in trees introduced by Brodsky in [Brodsky, A. M., A theory of stationary trees and the balanced Baumgartner--Hajnal--Todorcevic theorem for trees. The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic]. In particular, we show that if TT is a nonspecial ω1\omega_1-tree, then T    \diamondsuit_T \implies \diamondsuit, and if TT is a Suslin tree, then T    \diamondsuit_T \iff \diamondsuit. We also prove that \diamondsuit^* implies T\diamondsuit_T (yielding the consistency of T\diamondsuit_T) and establish the consistency of ¬+(T nonspecial ω1-tree (T))\neg\diamondsuit^* + (\forall T\text{ nonspecial }\omega_1\text{-tree }(\diamondsuit_T)). Finally, we demonstrate that it is consistent with \diamondsuit that there exists a nonspecial ω1\omega_1-tree with (¬T)(\neg\diamondsuit_T), introducing two forcing properties -- σ(S)\sigma(S)-closed and strategically closed in models -- which are preserved under countable support iterations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.12736,
  title  = {Diamonds on trees},
  author = {Osvaldo Guzmán and Carlos López-Callejas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.12736},
  year   = {2026}
}

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41 pages

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