On Foreman’s maximality principle

Mohammad Golshani, Yair Hayut

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider Foreman’s maximality principle, which says that any nontrivial forcing notion either adds a new real or collapses some cardinals. We prove the consistency of some of its consequences. We observe that it is consistent that every c.c.c. forcing adds a real and that for every uncountable regular cardinal κ, every κ-closed forcing of size 2 collapses some cardinal.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1344-1356
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Symbolic Logic
Volume81
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2016

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© 2016, Association for Symbolic Logic.

Keywords

  • Adding reals
  • Collapsing cardinals
  • Extender based Radin forcing
  • Extender sequences

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