Equivalent Forms of MA(k)
The following statements are equivalent to Martin's axiom:
- If X is a compact Hausdorff topological space which satisfies the ccc then X is not the union of k or fewer nowhere dense subsets.
- If P is a non-empty upwards ccc poset and Y is a family of cofinal subsets of P with |Y| ≤ k then there is an upwards directed set A such that A meets every element of Y.
- Let A be a non-zero ccc Boolean algebra and F a family of subsets of A with |F| ≤ k. Then there is a boolean homomorphism φ: A → Z/2Z such that for every X in F either there is an a in X with φ(a) = 1 or there is an upper bound b for X with φ(b) = 0.
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