Baumgartner's axiom

In mathematical set theory, Baumgartner's axiom (BA) can be one of three different axioms introduced by James Earl Baumgartner.

An axiom introduced by Baumgartner (1973) states that any two ℵ₁-dense subsets of the real line are order-isomorphic. Todorcevic showed that this Baumgartner's Axiom is a consequence of the Proper Forcing Axiom.

Another axiom introduced by Baumgartner (1975) states that Martin's axiom for partially ordered sets MA_P(κ) is true for all partially ordered sets P that are countable closed, well met and ℵ₁-linked and all cardinals κ less than 2^ℵ₁.

Baumgartner's axiom A is an axiom for partially ordered sets introduced in (Baumgartner 1983, section 7). A partial order (P, ≤) is said to satisfy axiom A if there is a family ≤_n of partial orderings on P for n = 0, 1, 2, ... such that

1. ≤₀ is the same as ≤
2. If p ≤_n+1q then p ≤_nq
3. If there is a sequence p_n with p_n+1 ≤_n p_n then there is a q with q ≤_n p_n for all n.
4. If I is a pairwise incompatible subset of P then for all p and for all natural numbers n there is a q such that q ≤_n p and the number of elements of I compatible with q is countable.

References

• Baumgartner, James E. (1973), "All ℵ₁-dense sets of reals can be isomorphic" (PDF), Fundamenta Mathematicae, 79 (2): 101–106, doi:10.4064/fm-79-2-101-106, MR 0317934
• Baumgartner, James E. (1975), Generalizing Martin's axiom, unpublished manuscript
• Baumgartner, James E. (1983), "Iterated forcing", in Mathias, A. R. D. (ed.), Surveys in set theory, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 87, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 1–59, ISBN 0-521-27733-7, MR 0823775
• Kunen, Kenneth (2011), Set theory, Studies in Logic, vol. 34, London: College Publications, ISBN 978-1-84890-050-9, MR 2905394, Zbl 1262.03001