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Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory
March 27-29, 2009
Boise State University
Boise, Idaho, United States

Organizers
Liljana Babinkostova, Andrés E. Caicedo, Stefan Geschke, Richard Ketchersid and Marion Scheepers

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Forceless, ineffective, powerless proofs of descriptive set-theoretic dichotomy theorems
by
Benjamin Miller
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Over the last 35 years, a variety of dichotomy theorems have been discovered whose statements are purely classical in nature, yet whose proofs require somewhat sophisticated techniques from mathematical logic. We will discuss an elementary approach to proving and generalizing these theorems.

Date received: March 16, 2009


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