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Tristan van der Vlugt (TU Wien) – Subseries numbers for convergent subseries

Category
Logic
Date
@ MALL, online
Date
@ MALL, online, 16:00
Location
MALL, online
Speaker
Tristan van der Vlugt
Affiliation
TU Wien
Duration
1 hour
Category

An infinite series of real numbers is conditionally convergent if it converges, but the sums of the positive and of the negative terms are both divergent. How many infinite subsets of the naturals are necessary such that every conditionally convergent series has a subseries given by one of our infinite subsets that is divergent? The answer to this question is known as the subseries number ß, and was isolated as a cardinal characteristic of the continuum by Brendle, Brian and Hamkins.