A polarized partition relation and failure of GCH at singular strong limit

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epartment of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, U.S.A.
Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University, 91 904 Jerusalem, Israel

The main result is that for λ strong limit singular failing the continuum hypothesis (i.e.

2^{λ} > λ^{+}

), a polarized partition theorem holds.

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