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Madness and regularity properties

@article{Horowitz2017MadnessAR,
  title={Madness and regularity properties},
  author={Haim Horowitz and Saharon Shelah},
  journal={arXiv: Logic},
  year={2017}
}
Starting from an inaccessible cardinal, we construct a model of $ZF+DC$ where there exists a mad family and all sets of reals are $\mathbb Q$-measurable for $\omega^{\omega}$-bounding sufficiently absolute forcing notions $\mathbb Q$. 
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E-mail address: haim.horowitz@mail.huji.ac.il (Saharon Shelah

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