About splitting numbers
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: About splitting numbers
zbMATH Open document ID: 0902.03035
author: Toshio Suzuki
published in: Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series A
publication date: 1998-11-05T00:00:00Z
review text: The main purpose of this paper is to present a proof of the following theorem with some expositions for working mathematicians who are not set theorists. Theorem 1. Suppose that \(\kappa\) is an uncountable regular cardinal. Then, the splitting number of \(\kappa\) is strictly larger than \(\kappa\) if and only if \(\kappa\) is a weakly compact cardinal. In August 1992, the author reported a sketch of a proof of Theorem 1, and that of Proposition 2, on a meeting at the Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University. Since then, a previous version of our current paper has been circulated among some set theorists. In October 1992, J. Zapletal, who was a graduate student of the Pennsylvania State University at that time, informed us that he improved our results. Nowadays, the theory of splitting numbers at uncountable cardinals relates to various branches of set theory such as inner model theory and Shelah's pcf theory. Our current paper is the final version of the preprint with the same title, which appears in the list of references of \textit{J. Zapletal's} paper [``Splitting number at uncountable regular cardinals'', J. Symb. Log. 62, 35-42 (1997; Zbl 0874.03058)].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03E55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03E05
zbMATH DE Number: 1192516
zbMATH Keywords: regular cardinal
zbMATH Keywords: splitting number
zbMATH Keywords: weakly compact cardinal
zbMATH Keywords: uncountable cardinals
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: pjaa.74.33
OpenAlex ID: W2088405854
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DOI: 10.3792/PJAA.74.33
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