Speaker: 

Monroe Eskew

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Monday, March 5, 2012 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 440R

We present a proof of a theorem of Gitik and Shelah that places limits on the structure of quotient algebras by sigma-additive ideals. We will start by showing connections between Cohen forcing and Baire category on the reals. Then by using generic ultrapowers, we will prove that no sigma-additive ideal yields an atomless algebra with a countable dense subset. We will discuss connections with Ulam's measure problem: How many measures does it take to measure all sets of reals?