Specializing Trees with Small Approximations I

Abstract

Assuming $\rm PFA$, we shall use internally club $\omega_1$-guessing models as side conditions to show that for every tree $T$ of height $\omega_2$ without cofinal branches, there is a proper and $\aleph_2$-preserving forcing notion with finite conditions which specialises $T$. Moreover, the forcing has the $\omega_1$-approximation property.