# Borel Liftings of Borel Sets: Some Decidable and Undecidable Statements

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Brand new. We distribute directly for the publisher. One of the aims of this work is to investigate some natural properties of Borel sets which are undecidable in $ZFC$. The ... authors' starting point is the following elementary, though non-trivial result: Consider $X \subset 2^\omega\times2^\omega$, set $Y=\pi(X)$, where $\pi$ denotes the canonical projection of $2^\omega\times2^\omega$ onto the first factor, and suppose that$(\star)$}: "Any compact subset of $Y$ is the projection of some compact subset of $X$".If moreover $X$ is $\mathbf{\Pi}^0_2$ then$(\star\star)$: "The restriction of $\pi$ to some relatively closed subset of $X$ is perfect onto $Y$"it follows that in the present case $Y$ is also $\mathbf{\Pi}^0_2$. Notice that the reverse implication $(\star\star)\Rightarrow(\star)$ holds trivially for any $X$ and $Y$.But the implication $(\star)\Rightarrow (\star\star)$ for an arbitrary Borel set $X \subset 2^\omega\times2^\omega$ is equivalent to the statement "$\forall \alpha\in \omega^\omega, \,\aleph_1$ is inaccessible in $L(\alpha)$". More precisely The authors prove that the validity of $(\star)\Rightarrow(\star\star)$ for all $X \in \varSigma^0_{1+\xi+1}$, is equivalent to "$\aleph_\xi^L<\aleph_1$". However we shall show independently, that when $X$ is Borel one can, in $ZFC$, derive from $(\star)$ the weaker conclusion that $Y$ is also Borel and of the same Baire class as $X$. This last result solves an old problem about compact covering mappings.In fact these results are closely related to the following general boundedness principle Lift$(X, Y)$: "If any compact subset of $Y$ admits a continuous lifting in $X$, then $Y$ admits a continuous lifting in $X$", where by a lifting of $Z\subset \pi(X)$ in $X$ we mean a mapping on $Z$ whose graph is contained in $X$. The main result of this work will give the exact set theoretical strength of this principle depending on the descriptive complexity of $X$ and $Y$. The authors also prove a similar result for a variation of Lift$(X, Y)$ in which "continuous lift Read more Show Less

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One of the aims of this work is to investigate some natural properties of Borel sets which are undecidable in $ZFC$. The authors' starting point is the following elementary, though non-trivial result: Consider $X \subset 2^\omega\times2^\omega$, set $Y=\pi(X)$, where $\pi$ denotes the canonical projection of $2^\omega\times2^\omega$ onto the first factor, and suppose that $(\star)$: ''Any compact subset of $Y$ is the projection of some compact subset of $X$''. If moreover $X$ is $\mathbf{\Pi}^0_2$ then $(\star\star)$: ''The restriction of $\pi$ to some relatively closed subset of $X$ is perfect onto $Y$'' it follows that in the present case $Y$ is also $\mathbf{\Pi}^0_2$. Notice that the reverse implication $(\star\star)\Rightarrow(\star)$ holds trivially for any $X$ and $Y$. But the implication $(\star)\Rightarrow (\star\star)$ for an arbitrary Borel set $X \subset 2^\omega\times2^\omega$ is equivalent to the statement ''$\forall \alpha\in \omega^\omega, \,\aleph_1$ is inaccessible in $L(\alpha)$''. More precisely The authors prove that the validity of $(\star)\Rightarrow(\star\star)$ for all $X \in \varSigma^0_{1+\xi+1}$, is equivalent to ''$\aleph_\xi^L<\aleph_1$''. However we shall show independently, that when $X$ is Borel one can, in $ZFC$, derive from $(\star)$ the weaker conclusion that $Y$ is also Borel and of the same Baire class as $X$. This last result solves an old problem about compact covering mappings. In fact these results are closely related to the following general boundedness principle Lift$(X, Y)$: ''If any compact subset of $Y$ admits a continuous lifting in $X$, then $Y$ admits a continuous lifting in $X$'', where by a lifting of $Z\subset \pi(X)$ in $X$ we mean a mapping on $Z$ whose graph is contained in $X$. The main result of this work will give the exact set theoretical strength of this principle depending on the descriptive complexity of $X$ and $Y$. The authors also prove a similar result for a variation of Lift$(X, Y)$ in which ''continuous liftings'' are replaced by ''Borel liftings'', and which answers a question of H. Friedman. Among other applications the authors obtain a complete solution to a problem which goes back to Lusin concerning the existence of $\mathbf{\Pi}^1_1$ sets with all constituents in some given class $\mathbf{\Gamma}$ of Borel sets, improving earlier results by J. Stern and R. Sami. The proof of the main result will rely on a nontrivial representation of Borel sets (in $ZFC$) of a new type, involving a large amount of ''abstract algebra''. This representation was initially developed for the purposes of this proof, but has several other applications.

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