Existence of Shelah–Steprāns almost disjoint families in the constructed model

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Let Gω2{G}_{{\omega}_{2}} be a (V,Pω2)({\mathbf{V}}, {\mathbb{P}}_{{\omega}_{2}})-generic filter, and consider the model V[Gω2]{\mathbf{V}}[{G}_{{\omega}_{2}}] constructed in the proof of Theorem. A Shelah–Steprāns almost disjoint family is an almost disjoint family of infinite subsets of ω\omega with the Shelah–Steprāns property.

Existence conjecture. There are Shelah–Steprāns almost disjoint families in V[Gω2]{\mathbf{V}}[{G}_{{\omega}_{2}}], necessarily of size 2{\aleph}_{2}.

The preceding theorem establishes that no Shelah–Steprāns almost disjoint family of size 1{\aleph}_{1} exists in this model, so the assertion concerns existence at the next possible size. The supplied text does not establish whether such a family exists.

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Jörg Brendle, Osvaldo Guzmán, Michael Hrušák and Dilip Raghavan, “Combinatorial properties of MAD families”, arXiv:2206.14936 (2022).

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