# Diana Carolina Montoya Amaya: Some cardinal invariants of the generalized Baire spaces

The successful PhD defense of Diana Carolina Montoya Amaya took place Wednesday, June 14 at the KGRC. Congratulations!

Abstract: The central topic of this talk is the well-known Cardinal invariants of the continuum and it is divided in two parts: In the first one we focus on the generalization of some of these cardinals to the generalized Baire spaces $\kappa^\kappa$, when $\kappa$ is a regular uncountable cardinal. First, we present a generalization of some of the cardinals in Cichon’s diagram to this context and some of the provable ZFC relationships between them. Further, we study their values in some generic extensions corresponding to $<\!\!\kappa$-support and $\kappa$-support iterations of generalized classical forcing notions. We point out the similarities and differences with the classical case and explain the limitations of the classical methods when aiming for such generalizations. Second, we study a specific model where the ultrafilter number at $\kappa$ is small, $2^\kappa$ is large and in which a larger family of cardinal invariants can be decided and proven to be $<\!2^\kappa$.

The second part deals exclusively with the countable case: We present a generalization of the method of matrix iterations to find models where various constellations in Cichon’s diagram can be obtained and the value of the almost disjointness number can be decided. The method allows us also to find a generic extension where seven cardinals in Cichon’s diagram can be separated.

Board of examiners:

Professor Mirna Džamonja (University of East Anglia)
o.Univ.-Prof. Sy-David Friedman (Universität Wien)
ao.Univ.Prof. Martin Goldstern (TU Wien)

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