Generalized pathways

Abstract

We study a type of object, called a pathway (generalizing pathways in the sense of P. E. Cohen [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 74, No. 2 (1979), 318--321]), which is useful for several set-theoretic constructions and whose existence, in a sense, generalizes the notion of a cardinal characteristic being large.

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