An important problem in the dynamics of surface homeomorphisms is determining the forcing relation between orbits. The forcing relation between periodic orbits can be computed using existing algorithms. Here we consider forcing relations between homoclinic orbits. We outline a general procedure for computing the forcing relation, and apply this to compute the equivalence and forcing relations f...

With every σ-ideal I on a Polish space we associate the σ-ideal generated by closed sets in I. We study the forcing notions of Borel sets modulo the respective σ-ideals and find connections between their forcing properties. To this end, we associate to a σ-ideal on a Polish space an ideal on a countable set and show how forcing properties of the forcing depend on combinatorial properties of the...

ABSRACT In his book Proper Forcing (1982) Shelah introduced three classes of forcings (complete, proper, and semi-proper) and proved a strong iteration theorem for each of them: The first two are closed under countable support iterations. The latter is closed under revised countable support iterations subject to certain standard restraints. These theorems have been heavily used in modern set th...

We continue investigations of forcing notions with strong ccc properties introducing new methods of building sweet forcing notions. We also show that quotients of topologically sweet forcing notions over Cohen reals are topologically sweet while the quotients over random reals do not have to be such. One of the main ingredients of the construction of the model for all projective sets of reals h...

We prove that a number of axioms, each a consequence of PFA (the Proper Forcing Axiom) are equivalent. In particular we show that TOP (the Thinning-out Principle as introduced by Baumgartner in the Handbook of set-theoretic topology), is equivalent to the following statement: If I is an ideal on co, with co, generators, then there exists an uncountable X C co,, such that either [X]w n I = 0 or ...