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Conjectures of Rado and Chang and Cardinal Arithmetic

Stevo Todorcevic
- pp 385-398
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In this paper, the following conjecture of Richard Rado was studied: a family of intervals of a linearly ordered set is the union of countably many disjoint subfamilies iff every subfamily of size ℵ1 has this property.
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We study the following conjecture of Richard Rado: a family of intervals of a linearly ordered set is the union of countably many disjoint subfamilies iff every subfamily of size ℵ1 has this property. We connect it with a well-known two-cardinal transfer principle of model theory known as Chang’s Conjecture and show that it solves the Singular Cardinals Problem.

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