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 language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 465-475 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Archive for Mathematical Logic |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2026 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2026.
Keywords
- Axiom of Choice
- Elementary embeddings
- Measurable cardinals
- Silver criterion
- Symmetric extensions
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