List of Forcing Notions - Namba Forcing

Namba Forcing

Namba forcing (after Kanji Namba) is used to change the cofinality of ω2 to ω without collapsing ω1.

  • P is the set of perfect trees in the set of finite sequences of ordinals less than ω2. P is ordered by inclusion.

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