In this paper we consider Foreman’s maximality principle, which says that any non-trivial forcing notion either adds a new real or collapses some cardinals. We prove the consistency of some of its consequences. We observe that it is consistent that every c.c.c. forcing adds a real and that for every uncountable regular cardinal κ, every κ-closed forcing of size 2<κ collapses some cardinal.

We show that the reduced cofinality of the nonstationary ideal NSκ on a regular uncountable cardinal κ may be less than its cofinality, where the reduced cofinality of NSκ is the least cardinality of any family F of nonstationary subsets of κ such that every nonstationary subset of κ can be covered by less than κ many members of F . For this we investigate connections of the various cofinalitie...

Abstract A regular rotating MOG (modified gravity) compact object is derived that reduces to the Kerr black hole when parameter $$\alpha =0$$ α = 0 . Physical consequences of dark object, which everywhere in spacetime for &gt; \alpha _\mathrm{crit}=0.67...

This paper contributes to the set-theoretic side of understanding Keisler’s order. We consider properties of ultrafilters which affect saturation of unstable theories: the lower cofinality lcf(א0,D) of א0 modulo D, saturation of the minimum unstable theory (the random graph), flexibility, goodness, goodness for equality, and realization of symmetric cuts. We work in ZFC except when noted, as se...

By Isbell duality, each compact regular frame L is isomorphic to the frame of opens of a compact Hausdorff space X. In this note we study the spectrum Spec(L) of prime filters of a compact regular frame L. We prove that X is realized as the minimum of Spec(L) and the Gleason cover of X as the maximum of Spec(L). We also characterize zero-dimensional, extremally disconnected, and scattered compa...