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NONEXISTENCE OF NONMOLECULAR GENERIC SETS

Donald D. Steiner and Alexander Abian

MCC, 9430 Research Blvd., Austin, Texas 78759, USA and Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.

Abstract: Generic subsets of partially ordered sets play an important role in giving significant examples of Zermelo-Fraenkel set-theoretical models. The significance of these models lies in the fact that a generic subset $G$ of a partially ordered set $P$, in general, does not exist in a model $M$ in which $P$ exists. Thus, by adjoining $G$ to $M$ an interesting extended model may ensue which has properties not shared by $M$. Thus, in considering generic extensions of set-theoretical models it is quite relevant to know whether or not a generic subset of a partially ordered set $P$ exists in the same model in which $P$ exists. In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for $P$ to have a generic subset in the same model.

Classification (MSC2000): 06A10

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