{ "id": "1801.02517", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-01-08T15:44:26.000Z", "updated": "2018-01-08T15:44:26.000Z", "title": "On the cofinality of the splitting number", "authors": [ "Alan Dow", "Saharon Shelah" ], "journal": "Indag. Math. (N.S.) 29 (2018), no 1, 382-395", "categories": [ "math.LO" ], "abstract": "The splitting number can be singular. The key method is to construct a forcing poset with finite support matrix iterations of ccc posets introduced by Blass and the second author \"Ultrafilters with small generating sets\", Israel J. Math., 65, (1989)", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-01-08T15:44:26.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "03E15" ], "keywords": [ "splitting number", "cofinality", "finite support matrix iterations", "small generating sets", "ccc posets" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }