On the structure of measurable filters on a countable set

We develop the theory of cofinal types of ultrafilters over measurable cardinals and establish its connections to Galvin's property. We generalize fundamental results from the countable to the uncountable, but often in surprisingly strengthened forms, and present models with varying structures of the cofinal types of ultrafilters over measurable cardinals.

In [1] the authors showed some basic properties of a pre-order that arose in combinatorial number theory, namely the finite embeddability between sets of natural numbers, and they presented its generalization to ultrafilters, which is related to the algebraical and topological structure of the Stone-\v{C}ech compactification of the discrete space of natural numbers. In this present paper we continue the study of these pre-orders. In particular, we prove that there exist ultra...

In this paper we present a use of nonstandard methods in the theory of ultrafilters and in related applications to combinatorics of numbers.

A set A of natural numbers is finitely embeddable in another such set B if every finite subset of A has a rightward translate that is a subset of B. This notion of finite embeddability arose in combinatorial number theory, but in this paper we study it in its own right. We also study a related notion of finite embeddability of ultrafilters on the natural numbers. Among other results, we obtain connections between finite embeddability and the algebraic and topological structur...

The survey is devoted to the combinatorial and metric theory of filtrations, i.\,e., decreasing sequences of $\sigma$-algebras in measure spaces or decreasing sequences of subalgebras of certain algebras. One of the key notions, that of standardness, plays the role of a~generalization of the notion of the independence of a~sequence of random variables. We discuss the possibility of obtaining a~classification of filtrations, their invariants, and various links to problems in a...

Let X be a non-empty set and U a ring of subsets of X. The countable additive functions U->{0,1} are called measures. The paper gives some definitions (derivable measures, the Lebesgue-Stieltjes measures) and properties of these functions, its purpose being that of reconstruction of the measure theory within this frame, by analogy with the real measure theory. We mention the special case of the Riemann integrals.

We study the relation between the Hurewicz and Menger properties of filters considered topologically as subspaces of P(\omega) with the Cantor set topology.

This survey is motivated by specific questions arising in the similarities and contrasts between (Baire) category and (Lebesgue) measure -- category-measure duality and non-duality, as it were. The bulk of the text is devoted to a summary, intended for the working analyst, of the extensive background in set theory and logic needed to discuss such matters: to quote from the Preface of Kelley [Kel]: "what every young analyst should know".

We show that there is a set of $2^{2^{\kappa}}$ ultrafilters incomparable in Rudin-Frol\'ik order of $\beta \kappa \setminus \kappa$, where $\kappa$ is regular, for which no subset with more than one element has an infimum.

We propose a reformulation of the ideal $\mathcal{N}$ of Lebesgue measure zero sets of reals modulo an ideal $J$ on $\omega$, which we denote by $\mathcal{N}_J$. In the same way, we reformulate the ideal $\mathcal{E}$ generated by $F_\sigma$ measure zero sets of reals modulo $J$, which we denote by $\mathcal{N}^*_J$. We show that these are $\sigma$-ideals and that $\mathcal{N}_J=\mathcal{N}$ iff $J$ has the Baire property, which in turn is equivalent to $\mathcal{N}^*_J=\math...