Preservation of splitting families and cardinal characteristics of the continuum

Abstract

We show how to construct, via forcing, splitting families than 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 Cicho\'n's diagram, $\mathfrak{m}(2\text{-Knaster})$, $\mathfrak{p}$, $\mathfrak{h}$, the splitting number $\mathfrak{s}$ and the reaping number $\mathfrak{r}$.