COMPLETELY SEPARABLE MAD FAMILIES AND THE MODAL LOGIC OF Βω

Abstract

We show in ZFC that the existence of completely separable maximal almost disjoint families of subsets of $\omega $ implies that the modal logic $\mathbf {S4.1.2}$ is complete with respect to the Čech–Stone compactification of the natural numbers, the space $\beta \omega $ . In the same fashion we prove that the modal logic $\mathbf {S4}$ is complete with respect to the space $\omega ^*=\beta \omega \setminus \omega $ . This improves the results of G. Bezhanishvili and J. Harding in [4], where the authors prove these theorems under stronger assumptions ( $\mathfrak {a=c}$ ). Our proof is also somewhat simpler.