Mrówka maximal almost disjoint families for uncountable cardinals |
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Authors: | Alan Dow |
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Institution: | a Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, United States b Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412, United States |
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Abstract: | We consider generalizations of a well-known class of spaces, called by S. Mrówka, N∪R, where R is an infinite maximal almost disjoint family (MADF) of countable subsets of the natural numbers N. We denote these generalizations by ψ=ψ(κ,R) for κ?ω. Mrówka proved the interesting theorem that there exists an R such that |βψ(ω,R)?ψ(ω,R)|=1. In other words there is a unique free z-ultrafilter p0 on the space ψ. We extend this result of Mrówka to uncountable cardinals. We show that for κ?c, Mrówka's MADF R can be used to produce a MADF M⊂ωκ] such that |βψ(κ,M)?ψ(κ,M)|=1. For κ>c, and every M⊂ωκ], it is always the case that |βψ(κ,M)?ψ(κ,M)|≠1, yet there exists a special free z-ultrafilter p on ψ(κ,M) retaining some of the properties of p0. In particular both p and p0 have a clopen local base in βψ (although βψ(κ,M) need not be zero-dimensional). A result for κ>c, that does not apply to p0, is that for certain κ>c, p is a P-point in βψ. |
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Keywords: | 54G20 54C30 03E25 |
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