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

Abstract

There are shown to be many ε-Hermitian spaces, and an isometry criterion is stated which holds under MA1 and is false under 20< 21.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1989

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