scholarly journals Strong compactness, measurability, and the class of supercompact cardinals

2001 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur W. Apter
2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 934-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dima Sinapova

AbstractWe show that given ω many supercompact cardinals, there is a generic extension in which the tree property holds at ℵω2+ 1 and the SCH fails at ℵω2.


1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 1675-1688
Author(s):  
Arthur W. Apter

AbstractWe extend earlier work (both individual and joint with Shelah) and prove three theorems about the class of measurable limits of compact cardinals, where a compact cardinal is one which is either strongly compact or supercompact. In particular, we construct two models in which every measurable limit of compact cardinals below the least supercompact limit of supercompact cardinals possesses non-trivial degrees of supercompactness. In one of these models, every measurable limit of compact cardinals is a limit of supercompact cardinals and also a limit of strongly compact cardinals having no non-trivial degree of supercompactness. We also show that it is consistent for the least supercompact cardinal κ to be a limit of strongly compact cardinals and be so that every measurable limit of compact cardinals below κ has a non-trivial degree of supercompactness. In this model, the only compact cardinals below κ with a non-trivial degree of supercompactness are the measurable limits of compact cardinals.


1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur W. Apter

A very fruitful line of research in recent years has been the application of techniques in large cardinals and forcing to the production of models in which certain consequences of the axiom of determinateness (AD) are true or in which certain “AD-like” consequences are true. Numerous results have been published on this subject, among them the papers of Bull and Kleinberg [4], Bull [3], Woodin [15], Mitchell [11], and [1], [2].Another such model will be constructed in this paper. Specifically, the following theorem is proven.Theorem 1. Con(ZFC + There are cardinals κ < δ < λ so that κ is a supercompact limit of supercompact cardinals, λ is a measurable cardinal, and δ is λ supercompact) ⇒ Con(ZF + ℵ1 and ℵ2 are Ramsey cardinals + The ℵn for 3 ≤ n ≤ ω are singular cardinals of cofinality ω each of which carries a Rowbottom filter + ℵω + 1 is a Ramsey cardinal + ℵω + 2 is a measurable cardinal).It is well known that under AD + DC, ℵ2 and ℵ2 are measurable cardinals, the ℵn for 3 ≤ n < ω are singular Jonsson cardinals of cofinality ℵ2, ℵω is a Rowbottom cardinal, and ℵω + 1 and ℵω + 2 are measurable cardinals.The proof of the above theorem will use the existence of normal ultrafilters which satisfy a certain property (*) (to be defined later) and an automorphism argument which draws upon the techniques developed in [9], [2], and [4] but which shows in addition that certain supercompact Prikry partial orderings are in a strong sense “homogeneous”. Before beginning the proof of the theorem, however, we briefly mention some preliminaries.


2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (01) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA FONTANELLA

Abstract An inaccessible cardinal is strongly compact if, and only if, it satisfies the strong tree property. We prove that if there is a model of ZFC with infinitely many supercompact cardinals, then there is a model of ZFC where ${\aleph _{\omega + 1}}$ has the strong tree property. Moreover, we prove that every successor of a singular limit of strongly compact cardinals has the strong tree property.


2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
ITAY NEEMAN

AbstractAssuming ω supercompact cardinals we force to obtain a model where the tree property holds both at אω+1, and at אn for all 2 ≤ n < ω. A model with the former was obtained by Magidor–Shelah from a large cardinal assumption above a huge cardinal, and recently by Sinapova from ω supercompact cardinals. A model with the latter was obtained by Cummings–Foreman from ω supercompact cardinals. Our model, where the two hold simultaneously, is another step toward the goal of obtaining the tree property on increasingly large intervals of successor cardinals.


2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAXWELL LEVINE

AbstractWe assume the existence of a supercompact cardinal and produce a model with weak square but no very good scale at a particular cardinal. This follows work of Cummings, Foreman, and Magidor, but uses a different approach. We produce another model, starting from countably many supercompact cardinals, where □K,<K holds but □K, λ fails for λ < K.


2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Arthur W. Apter
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