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is some elementary embedding. This algebra is the free left-distributive algebra on one generator. For this he introduced
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R. Laver (1978). "Making the supercompactness of κ indestructible under κ-directed closed forcing".
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Ralph McKenzie has been a doctoral student of James Donald Monk, who has been a doctoral student of
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R. Laver (2007). "Certain very large cardinals are not created in small forcing extensions".
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holds for the product of infinitely many trees. This solved a longstanding open question.
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proved that it is consistent that the continuum hypothesis holds and there are no ℵ
41:(October 20, 1942 – September 19, 2012) was an American mathematician, working in 17: 264: 228: 73: 700: 547: 591: 42: 716: 626: 607: 30: 459: 429: 395: 360: 170:
is countable. This important independence result was the first when a
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R. Laver (1984). "Products of infinitely many perfect trees".
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Among Laver's notable achievements some are the following.
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R. Laver (1973). "An order type decomposition theorem".
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R. Laver (1971). "On Fraïssé's order type conjecture".
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Laver proved that the perfect subtree version of the
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Collegium Logicum: Annals of the Kurt-Gödel-Society
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Laver; S. Shelah (1981). 777: 701:10.1016/j.apal.2007.07.002 548:10.1112/jlms/s2-29.3.385 210:indestructibility result 613:Advances in Mathematics 568:Advances in Mathematics 270:He also showed that if 236:Halpern–Läuchli theorem 168:strong measure zero set 627:10.1006/aima.1995.1014 191:supercompact cardinals 80:Research contributions 72:Richard Laver died in 35: 27:American mathematician 376:Annals of Mathematics 340:Annals of Mathematics 33: 301:Notes and references 214:proper forcing axiom 88:Using the theory of 39:Richard Joseph Laver 499:Souslin hypothesis" 98:well-quasi-ordering 90:better-quasi-orders 61:, with a thesis on 592:10338.dmlcz/127389 460:10.1007/BF02761175 430:10.1007/bf02392416 36: 649:R. Laver (1996). 606:R. Laver (1995). 561:R. Laver (1992). 409:R. 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Index

Indestructibility

set theory
University of California, Berkeley
Ralph McKenzie
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO
better-quasi-orders
Nash-Williams
well-quasi-ordering
Fraïssé's
Laver's theorem
scattered
Borel conjecture
strong measure zero set
forcing
Laver forcing
Shelah
Laver function
supercompact cardinals
c.c.
forcing
proper forcing axiom
Shelah
Suslin trees
Halpern–Läuchli theorem
Laver tables
forcing
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class

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