Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Club Guessing and the Universal Models

Mirna Džamonja
Source: Notre Dame J. Formal Logic Volume 46, Number 3 (2005), 283-300.

Abstract

We survey the use of club guessing and other PCF constructs in the context of showing that a given partially ordered class of objects does not have a largest, or a universal, element.

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Primary Subjects: 03C55, 03E04, 03C45
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