On construction schemes: building the uncountable from finite pieces

Abstract

In this Phd. thesis, a structural analysis of construction schemes is developed. The importance of this study will be justified by constructing several distinct combinatorial objects which have been of great interest in mathematics. We then continue the study of capturing axioms associated to construction schemes. From them, we construct several uncountable structures whose existence is known to be independent from the usual axioms of Set Theory.

181 pages. This is the author's Phd. thesis, submitted under the supervision of Osvaldo Guzman and Michael Hrusak