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1999 Spring Topology Conference
March 18-20, 1999
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Organizers
Mladen Bestvina, Greg Conner, Misha Kapovich, Bruce Kleiner

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Rigidity properties of Borel ideals on the integers
by
Ilijas Farah
York University, Canada

Consider Borel ideals on the integers (Borel in the natural Cantor-set topology on the power-set P(N) of the integers). We study the question: How does a change of the ideal I affect the change of its quotient P(N)/I? The quotient can be viewed as a Boolean algebra, or as a space of cosets of I, considered as a subgroup of P(N). We shall show that in many situations a quotient P(N)/I determines the ideal I uniquely, and discuss the current understanding of this rapidly developing subject.

Reference: A.S. Kechris, Rigidity properties of Borel ideals on the integers, Top. Appl. 85 (1998), 195-205.

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Date received: February 15, 1999


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