Remarks on small sets of reals

The notion of Haar null set was introduced by J. P. R. Christensen in 1973 and reintroduced in 1992 in the context of dynamical systems by Hunt, Sauer and Yorke. During the last twenty years this notion has been useful in studying exceptional sets in diverse areas. These include analysis, dynamical systems, group theory, and descriptive set theory. Inspired by these various results, we introduce the topological analogue of the notion of Haar null set. We call it Haar meager s...

Let $(X, +)$ denote $(\mathbb{R}, +)$ or $(2^{\omega}, +_2)$. We prove that for any meagre set $F \subseteq X$ there exists a subgroup $G \le X$ without the Baire property, disjoint with some translation of F. We point out several consequences of this fact and indicate why analogous result for the measure cannot be established in ZFC. We extend proof techniques from the work of Ros{\l}anowski and Shelah [1].

Contents: 2. Invited contribution: Ultrafilters and small sets 3. Research announcements 3.1. Inverse Systems and I-Favorable Spaces 3.2. Combinatorial and hybrid principles for sigma-directed families of countable sets modulo finite 3.3. A dichotomy characterizing analytic digraphs of uncountable Borel chromatic number in any dimension 3.4. A dichotomy characterizing analytic digraphs of uncountable Borel chromatic number in any dimension 3.5. Large continuum, oracles 3.6....

Let $\mathcal M_X$ denote the ideal of meager subsets of a topological space $X$. We prove that if $X$ is a completely metrizable space without isolated points, then the smallest cardinality of a non-meager subset of $X$, denoted $\mathrm{non}(\mathcal M_X)$, is exactly $\mathrm{non}(\mathcal M_X) = \mathrm{cf}[\kappa]^\omega \cdot \mathrm{non}(\mathcal M_{\mathbb R})$, where $\kappa$ is the minimum weight of a nonempty open subset of $X$. We also characterize the additivity ...

This paper proves the existence of nonmeasurable dense sets with additional properties using combinatorial techniques.

For which infinite cardinals $\kappa$ is there a partition of the real line $\mathbb R$ into precisely $\kappa$ Borel sets? Hausdorff famously proved that there is a partition of $\mathbb R$ into $\aleph_1$ Borel sets. But other than this, we show that the spectrum of possible sizes of partitions of $\mathbb R$ into Borel sets can be fairly arbitrary. For example, given any $A \subseteq \omega$ with $0,1 \in A$, there is a forcing extension in which $A = \{ n :\, \text{ther...

We introduce two new classes of special subsets of the real line: the class of perfectly null sets and the class of sets which are perfectly null in the transitive sense. These classes may play the role of duals to the corresponding classes on the category side. We investigate their properties and, in particular, we prove that every strongly null set is perfectly null in the transitive sense, and that it is consistent with ZFC that there exists a universally null set which is...

We construct a combinatorially large measure zero subset of the Cantor set.

We consider ``meager analogues'' of classical covering properties of Menger, Hurewicz and Rothberger. We show that Borel images of sets having ``our'' covering properties have these classical covering properties.

Let $\mathcal{E}$ be the ideal generated by the $F_\sigma$ measure zero subsets of the reals. The purpose of this survey paper is to study the cardinal characteristics (the additivity, covering number, uniformity, and cofinality) of $\mathcal{E}$.