Suslin cardinal

Suslin cardinal

In mathematics, a cardinal λ < Θ is a Suslin cardinal if there exists a set P ⊂ 2ω such that P is λ-Suslin but P is not λ'-Suslin for any λ' < λ. It is named after the Russian mathematician
Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin (1894–1919).

ee also

*Suslin line
*cardinal number
*AD+

References

* Howard Becker, "The restriction of a Borel equivalence relation to a sparse set", Arch. Math. Logic 42, 335–347 (2003), DOI|10.1007/s001530200142


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