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Oberseminar Sommersemester 2011
Raum:  MA 114 (SR 1D)

  • April 6:  Grigor Sargsyan (UCLA/Rutgers).

Title:  Some open problems and questions surrounding Kechris-Martin theorems.

Abstract:  We will try to reprove a version of the Kechris-Martin theorem using inner model theory.  The motivation for doing so is that the methods used can perhaps be generalized to higher pointclasses.

  • April 11:  Andrew Marks (UC-Berkeley).

Title: Universality among some recursion-theoretic countable Borel equivalence relations.

Abstract: We will begin by giving an overview of Martin's conjecture on Turing invariant functions and its relationship to the location of Turing equivalence in the hierarchy of countable Borel equivalence relations. We will then discuss analogues of these questions for some other degree structures.



  • April 20:  Dominique Lecomte (Paris 6).

Title:  Baire class $\xi$ colorings: the first three levels (joint work with Miroslav Zeleny)

Abstract:  The $G_0$ dichotomy due to Kechris, Solecki and Todorcevic characterizes the analytic relations having a Borel-measurable countable coloring. We give a version of the $G_0$ dichotomy for $\Delta^0_\xi$-measurable countable colorings when $\xi \le 3$. A $\Delta^0_\xi$-measurable countable coloring gives a covering of the diagonal consisting of countably many $\Delta^0_\xi$ squares. This leads to the study of countable unions of $\Delta^0_\xi$ rectangles. We also give a Hurewicz-like dichotomy for such countable unions when $\xi \le 2$.



  • April 25:  Holiday.

  • May 2:  "Holiday."

  • May 9:  Philipp Lücke (Münster)

Title:  Descriptive set theory at uncountable cardinals:  supercompact cardinals.



  • May 16:  "Holiday."

  • May 23:  Simon Thomas (Rutgers)

Title:  Universal Borel Actions of Countable Groups

Abstract:  If the countable group $G$ has a nonabelian free subgroup, then there exists a standard Borel $G$-space such that the corresponding orbit equivalence relation is countable universal. In this talk, I will consider the question of whether the converse also holds.



  • May 30:  "Holiday."

  • June 6:  Philipp Lücke (Münster)

Title:  Descriptive set theory at uncountable cardinals:  huge cardinals.



  • June 13:  Holiday.

  • June 20:  Andrew Marks (UC-Berkeley).

Title:  Some combinatorial questions related to the universality of recursive isomorphism.

Abstract:  We consider the question of whether recursive isomorphism is a universal countable Borel equivalence relation. We show that recursive isomorphism on $3^\omega$ is universal, and we isolate a combinatorial conjecture that would imply that recursive isomorphism on $2^\omega$ is universal. The conjecture can be stated in several equivalent forms, and is related to Borel coloring and matching problems.



  • June 27:  Sean Cox (Münster).

    Title:  Martin's Maximum and tower forcing.

    Abstract:  Woodin showed that if there is a Woodin cardinal $\delta$ in $V$, then there is a poset $\mathbb{P} \subset V_\delta$ such that forcing with $\mathbb{P}$ yields a wellfounded generic embedding $j: V \to M$ with small critical point. There are several variations, but this talk will deal with the case where $cr(j) = \omega_2$. Woodin's forcing is called the stationary tower, and is an example of the more general notion of a "tower of ideals".

    Burke showed that if $\kappa$ is a supercompact cardinal and $\delta$ is any inaccessible $> \kappa$, then there is a tower of ideals of height $\delta$ whose generic ultrapower is never wellfounded (the ideals concentrate on $\wp_\kappa(V_\lambda)$ for $\lambda < \delta$). In this talk, I will present some joint work with Matteo Viale which shows that Martin's Maximum has similar consequences for certain towers on $\wp_{\omega_2}(V_\lambda)$.

  • July 4:  "Holiday."

  • July 12:  Philipp Schlicht (Bonn).

Title:  Embedding structure of $\kappa$-trees.


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