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False: Prikry forcing is ccc

Statement refuted

Prikry forcing is ccc.

In fact, if U is a normal measure on the uncountable cardinal κ, then PU has an antichain of size κ. This refutes ccc even though PU is κ+-cc.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: U is a normal measure on the uncountable cardinal κ, and PU uses the stronger-below order.

[F1]

Prikry forcing is kappa-plus-cc but not ccc: Prikry forcing is κ+-cc but has an antichain of size κ and is not ccc.

[F2]

Prikry forcing and its direct-extension order: A condition has a finite increasing stem and a measure-one upper part; any two conditions with the same stem are compatible.

[F3]

Complete ultrafilters and measurable cardinals: The normal measure is nonprincipal and κ-complete.

[F4]

Closure, distributivity, and chain conditions for forcing orders: ccc means that every antichain is countable, while κ+-cc excludes antichains of size κ+.

Counterexample

1.1F3

For each α<κ, set Aα={ξ<κ:α<ξ}. Its complement is the intersection-complement of the singletons {ξ} for ξ≤α: nonprincipality puts every κ∖{ξ} in U, and F3 keeps their fewer-than-κ intersection Aα in U.

2.1F2step 1.1

Define pα=(⟨α⟩,Aα). Since min⁡Aα=α+1, F2 makes pα a condition. If α≠β and r extended both pα and pβ, the stem of r would end-extend both one-entry stems, so its first entry would have to equal both α and β. This is impossible. Therefore {pα:α<κ} is a pairwise incompatible family, and the indexing is injective, so it is an antichain of cardinality exactly κ.

3.1F4step 2.1

Because κ is uncountable, the antichain in step 2.1 is uncountable. By F4 this violates ccc, furnishing the promised witness to the failure of the refuted statement.

4.1F1F2F4step 2.1step 3.1∎

There is no conflict with the weaker positive conclusion in F1. There are only κ finite stems, and conditions with the same stem are compatible by F2. Thus among κ+ conditions two share a stem and are compatible, so no antichain has size κ+. The explicit antichain from step 2.1 has size κ, which is below that forbidden size.

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