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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

1.1

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

F3
2.1

Define pα=(α,Aα). Since minAα=α+1, F2 makes pα a condition. If αβ 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.

F2step 1.1
3.1

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.

F4step 2.1
4.1

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.

F1F2F4step 2.1step 3.1

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