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Avoiding families and Tukey functions on the nowhere-dense ideal

Part of: Set theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2010

Sławomir Solecki
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA (ssolecki@math.uiuc.edu)
Stevo Todorcevic
Affiliation:
Université Paris 7-CNRS, FRE 3233, 2, place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France (stevo@math.jussieu.fr) and Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto M5S 2E4, Canada

Abstract

We investigate Tukey functions from the ideal of all closed nowhere-dense subsets of 2. In particular, we answer an old question of Isbell and Fremlin by showing that this ideal is not Tukey reducible to the ideal of density zero subsets of ℕ. We also prove non-existence of various special types of Tukey reductions from the nowhere-dense ideal to analytic P-ideals. In connection with these results, we study families of clopen subsets of 2 with the property that for each nowhere-dense subset of 2 there is a set in not intersecting it. We call such families avoiding.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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