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Small measurable cardinals

  • Yair Hayut
  • , Asaf Karagila*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We continue the work from [8] and make a small—but significant—improvement to the definition of j-decomposable system. This provides us with a better lifting of elementary embeddings to symmetric extensions. In particular, this allows us to more easily lift weakly compact embeddings and thus preserve the notion of weakly critical cardinals. We use this improved lifting criterion to show that the first measurable cardinal can be the first weakly critical cardinal or the first Mahlo cardinal, both relative to the existence of a single measurable cardinal. However, if the first inaccessible cardinal is the first measurable cardinal, then in a suitable inner model it has Mitchell order of at least 2.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)465-475
Number of pages11
JournalArchive for Mathematical Logic
Volume65
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2026

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Keywords

  • Axiom of Choice
  • Elementary embeddings
  • Measurable cardinals
  • Silver criterion
  • Symmetric extensions

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