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An independence result in quadratic form theory: Infinitary combinatorics applied to ε-Hermitian spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Fred Appenzeller
Fred Appenzeller*
Affiliation:
Équipe de Logique Mathématique, Université Paris, -VII, 75251 Paris, France
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Abstract

There are shown to be many ε-Hermitian spaces, and an isometry criterion is stated which holds under MAℵ1 and is false under 2ℵ0< 2ℵ1.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 689 - 699
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1989

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