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Logic and Dynamics seminar: L(R) with Determinacy has no Suslin Lines.

Event Information
Speaker: 
William Chan
Event Location: 
GAB 461
Event Date: 
Friday, February 9, 2018 - 2:00pm

A Suslin line is an unbounded, nonseparable, complete dense linear ordering with the countable chain condition. If L(R) satisfies the axiom of determinacy, then L(R) has no Suslin lines. This answers a question of Foreman. (This is joint work with Jackson.)