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MATH 592 Descriptive Set Theory (4 credits)

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)

Overview

Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Polish spaces; universality of the Hilbert cube, the Cantor space, and the Baire space; the Cantor–Bendixson theorem; Baire spaces; the Borel hierarchy; change of topology techniques; infinite games; analytic and co-analytic sets; analytic separation; the Luzin–Souslin theorem; the Borel and measure isomorphism theorems; regularity properties of analytic sets; uniformization; the projective hierarchy. Optional topics: Polish groups and their actions; definable equivalence relations and graphs; effective descriptive set theory.

Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

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