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Measurability and Perfect Set Theorems for Equivalence Relations with Small Classes

Logic 2016-05-31 v2

Abstract

We ask whether Δ21\mathbf{\Delta^1_2} or Σ21\mathbf{\Sigma^1_2} equivalence relations with II-small classes for II a σ\sigma-ideal must have perfectly many classes. We show that for a wide class of ccc σ\sigma-ideals, a positive answer for Δ21\mathbf{\Delta^1_2} equivalence relations is equivalent to the II-measurability of Δ21\mathbf{\Delta^1_2} sets. However, the analogous statement for Σ21\mathbf{\Sigma^1_2} equivalence relations is false: Σ21\mathbf{\Sigma^1_2} equivalence relations with meager classes have a perfect set of pairwise inequivalent elements if and only if Δ21\mathbf{\Delta^1_2} sets have the Baire property.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.06051,
  title  = {Measurability and Perfect Set Theorems for Equivalence Relations with Small Classes},
  author = {Ohad Drucker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06051},
  year   = {2016}
}
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