Two-cardinal Kurepa Hypotheses

Abstract

We consider the two-cardinal Kurepa Hypothesis $\mathsf{KH}(\hat{I}º,\hat{I}»)$. We observe that if $\hat{I}º\le \hat{I}»<\hat{I}¼$ are infinite cardinals then $\neg \mathsf{KH}(\hat{I}º,\hat{I}»)\wedge \mathsf{KH}(\hat{I}º,\hat{I}¼)\to \mathsf{KH}(\hat{I}{»}^{+},\hat{I}¼)$, and show that in some sense this is the only $\mathsf{ZFC}$ constraint. The case of singular $\hat{I}»$ and its relation to Chang's Conjecture and scales is discussed. We also extend an independence result about Kurepa and Aronszajn trees due to Cummings to the case of successors of singular cardinal.

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