We prove that there is no Borel connection for non-trivial pairs of unsplitting relations. This was conjectured in [3].Mathematics Subject Classification: 03E15, 03E17, 03E35.
Vojtáš [6] introduced a framework in which cardinal characteristics of the continuum can be regarded as norms of corresponding relationsA Galois-Tukey connection from a relation B to a relation A, which we call as in [1] a morphism from A to B, is a pair of functions (α, β) such thatIf there is a morphism from A to B, then B ≤ A , and indeed the proofs of the inequalities usually exhibit morphisms between the corresponding relations. We deal with the unsplitting relations: For n ≥ 1, we haver 2 is the usual unsplitting number. It is easy to see that r m = r n for m, n ≥ 2.In [3] it was proved that there is no morphism for the sharp unsplitting relations with Baire measurable first component, and it was conjectured that the same is true for the ordinary unsplitting relations. In this paper we prove this conjecture, under the additional premise that α and β are Lebesgue measurable.The present work is built partly upon techniques from the mentioned work on the sharp unsplitting relations, to which we add some additional steps mainly coming from 1) The author was supported by a Minerva fellowship. 2)