Algebra Seminar talk

2014-12-05
Vera Fischer
Definable maximal cofinitary groups and large continuum

Abstract:
A cofinitary group is a subgroup of the group of all permutations of the natural numbers, all non-identity elements of which have only finitely many fixed points. A cofinitary group is maximal if it is not properly contained in any other cofinitary group.

We will discuss the existence of nicely definable maximal cofinitary groups in the presence of large continuum and in particular, we will see the generic construction of a maximal cofinitary group with a $\Pi^1_2$ definable set of generators in the presence of $2^\omega=\aleph_2$.