{ "id": "0906.5136", "version": "v3", "published": "2009-06-28T13:40:21.000Z", "updated": "2010-11-04T19:44:30.000Z", "title": "Linear $σ$-additivity and some applications", "authors": [ "Tal Orenshtein", "Boaz Tsaban" ], "categories": [ "math.GN", "math.LO" ], "abstract": "We show that countable increasing unions preserve a large family of well-studied covering properties, which are not necessarily sigma-additive. Using this, together with infinite-combinatorial methods and simple forcing theoretic methods, we explain several phenomena, settle problems of Just, Miller, Scheepers and Szeptycki [COC2], Gruenhage and Szeptycki [FUfin], Tsaban and Zdomskyy [SFT], and Tsaban [o-bdd, OPiT], and construct topological groups with very strong combinatorial properties.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2010-11-04T19:44:30.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "applications", "additivity", "strong combinatorial properties", "simple forcing theoretic methods", "construct topological groups" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0906.5136O" } } }