Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4659138 Topology and its Applications 2011 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

Assuming PFA, every uncountable subset E of the plane meets some C1 arc in an uncountable set. This is not provable from MA(ℵ1), although in the case that E is analytic, this is a ZFC result. The result is false in ZFC for C2 arcs, and the counter-example is a perfect set.

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