Shelah's five-element basis conjecture for uncountable linear orders
Shelah's five-element basis conjecture for uncountable linear orders
Let be a set of reals of cardinality , let be the first uncountable ordinal, let be its converse order, and let be a Countryman line, meaning an uncountable linear order whose square is the union of countably many chains under the coordinate-wise partial order. Write for the converse of . Shelah's five-element basis conjecture. Under the Proper Forcing Axiom, the orders , , , , and form a five-element basis for the uncountable linear orders whenever is a set of reals of cardinality and is a Countryman line. The conjecture concerns the classification of uncountable linear orders by embeddability; the source explains that Countryman lines exist in ZFC and that the five-element basis was viewed as the natural formulation after the development of proper forcing and the Proper Forcing Axiom.
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Primary source
Justin Tatch Moore, “A five element basis for the uncountable linear orders”, arXiv:math/0501525 (2005).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0501524.
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