On the strong equality between supercompactness and strong compactness

Arthur W. After*, Saharon Shelah

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Abstract

We show that supercompactness and strong compactness can be equivalent even as properties of pairs of regular cardinals. Specifically, we show that if V = ZFC 4- GCH is a given model (which in interesting cases contains instances of supercompactness), then there is some cardinal and cofinality preserving generic extension V[G] = ZFC + GCH in which, (a) (preservation) for κ ≤ γ regular, if V = "κ is λ supercompact", then V[G] = "κ is λ supercompact" and so that, (b) (equivalence) for κ ≤ λ regular, V[G] = " κ is A strongly compact" iff V[G] = "κ is λ supercompact", except possibly if κ is a measurable limit of cardinals which are λ supercompact.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)103-128
Number of pages26
JournalTransactions of the American Mathematical Society
Volume349
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997

Keywords

  • Strongly compact cardinal
  • Supercompact cardinal

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