A Comment on “ p &lt; t ”

Saharon Shelah

doi:10.4153/CMB-2009-033-4

A Comment on “ p < t ”

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018

Saharon Shelah

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Saharon Shelah*: Affiliation:
Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel, and Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08854, USA e-mail: shelah@math.huji.ac.il

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Dealing with the cardinal invariants $\mathfrak{p}$ and $\mathfrak{t}$ of the continuum, we prove that $\mathfrak{m}\,=\,\mathfrak{p}\,=\,{{\aleph }_{2}}\,\Rightarrow \,\mathfrak{t}\,=\,{{\aleph }_{2}}$ . In other words, if $\text{M}{{\text{A}}_{{{\aleph }_{1}}}}$ (or a weak version of this) holds, then (of course ${{\aleph }_{2}}\,\le \,\mathfrak{p}\,\le \,\mathfrak{t}$ and) $\mathfrak{p}\,=\,\,{{\aleph }_{2}}\,\Rightarrow \,\mathfrak{p}\,=\,\mathfrak{t}$ . The proof is based on a criterion for $\mathfrak{p}\,<\,\mathfrak{t}$.

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