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The symmetric Stone model has no componentwise proper selector

Statement

No function in the symmetric model N of The Good-Tree-Watson symmetric Stone model assigns to every distinguished metric component Rξ a nonempty proper subset of that component.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A function fN with domain M={Rξ:ξ<λ} and f(Rξ) a proper nonempty subset of Rξ for every ξ.

[F1]

Membership in N is hereditary symmetry: f has a support fix(e) in the normal filter, with eλ×R×λ of size below λ (The Good-Tree-Watson symmetric Stone model, Symmetric forcing systems, supports, and hereditarily symmetric names).

[F2]

In Claim 1.3 of the source, the reflection/identity choice is made separately at each first coordinate. Explicitly, if ξ<λ, ρ is a reflection of R, and τ is a permutation of λ, the coordinate map which is the identity off the ξ-block and sends (ξ,t,α) to (ξ,ρ(t),τ(α)) is an allowed automorphism. It fixes Rξ and sends Xξt to Xξ,ρ(t). [given, source, Automorphisms acting on forcing names]

[F3]

The symmetry lemma sends a forced statement to its image under a forcing automorphism; if two conditions are compatible, their common extension cannot force contradictory statements (Symmetry lemma for forcing automorphisms, Forcing preorders, compatibility and filters).

Proof

technique · contradiction
1.1

Suppose fN is such a selector. Choose a hereditarily symmetric name f˙, a condition p0 forcing that f˙ has the stated selector property, and a support eλ×R×λ of size below λ such that every member of fix(e) fixes f˙.

assume-contraF1
2.1

The projection of e to the first coordinate has size below λ, so choose ξ<λ outside it. Strengthen p0 to a condition p and choose distinct ground-model reals r,s so that p forces Xξrf˙(Rξ) and Xξsf˙(Rξ).

step 1.1F1
3.1

Let C be the set of third coordinates α occurring in dom(p) at first coordinate ξ. Then C<λ. Choose a disjoint Cλ of the same cardinality and a permutation τ of λ interchanging C and C and fixing the complement. Let ρ be reflection about (r+s)/2, and let π be the coordinate-local automorphism from [F2] using ρ and τ at ξ and the identity elsewhere.

step 2.1F2
4.1

The automorphism π lies in fix(e) because it is the identity outside the ξ-block, so πf˙=f˙. It fixes Rξ and swaps Xξr with Xξs. By [F3], πp therefore forces Xξsf˙(Rξ) and Xξrf˙(Rξ).

step 1.1step 2.1step 3.1F2F3
4.2

The conditions p and πp are compatible. On every coordinate whose first index is not ξ, π is the identity, so the two conditions agree on their common domain. At first index ξ, every third coordinate used by p lies in C, whereas every third coordinate used by πp lies in the disjoint set C, so their domains are disjoint there. Hence pπp is a common extension.

step 3.1F3
5.1

The common extension pπp inherits from p the assertion Xξsf˙(Rξ) and from πp the assertion Xξsf˙(Rξ), a contradiction. Therefore no componentwise nonempty proper selector belongs to N.

step 2.1step 4.1step 4.2discharge-contradiction

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