MATH 592. Descriptive Set Theory.
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MATH 592
Descriptive Set Theory.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
- Winter
- Prerequisites: MATH 454 or MATH 451 or permission of the instructor.
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