On the weak Freese-Nation property of $ {\mathcal P}\/(\omega)$

Sakaé Fuchino, Stefan Geschke and Lajos Soukup

We study the consequences of the weak Freese-Nation property of $ ({\mathcal P}\/(\omega),{\subseteq})$. Under this assumption, we prove that most of the known cardinal invariants including all of those appearing in Cichon's diagram take the same value as in the corresponding Cohen model. Using this principle we could also strengthen two results of W. Just about cardinal sequences of superatomic Boolean algebras in a Cohen model. These results show that the weak Freese-Nation property of $ ({\mathcal P}\/(\omega),{\subseteq})$ captures many of the features of Cohen models and hence may be considered as a principle axiomatizing a good portion of the combinatorics available in Cohen models.

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