Preservation of splitting families and cardinal characteristics of the continuum

Abstract

AbstractWe show how to construct, via forcing, splitting families that are preserved by a certain type of finite support iterations. As an application, we construct a model where 15 classical characteristics of the continuum are pairwise different, concretely: the 10 (non-dependent) entries in Cichoń’s diagram, $$\mathfrak{m}$$ m (2-Knaster), $$\mathfrak{p}$$ p , $$\mathfrak{h}$$ h , the splitting number $$\mathfrak{s}$$ s and the reaping number $$\mathfrak{r}$$ r .