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Laver indestructibility and the class of compact cardinals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Arthur W. Apter
Arthur W. Apter*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Baruch College of Cuny, New York, New York 10010, USA, E-mail: awabb@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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Abstract

Using an idea developed in joint work with Shelah, we show how to redefine Laver's notion of forcing making a supercompact cardinal κ indestructible under κ-directed closed forcing to give a new proof of the Kimchi-Magidor Theorem in which every compact cardinal in the universe (supercompact or strongly compact) satisfies certain indestructibility properties. Specifically, we show that if K is the class of supercompact cardinals in the ground model, then it is possible to force and construct a generic extension in which the only strongly compact cardinals are the elements of K or their measurable limit points, every κ ∈ K is a supercompact cardinal indestructible under ∈-directed closed forcing, and every κ a measurable limit point of K is a strongly compact cardinal indestructible under κ-directed closed forcing not changing ℘(κ). We then derive as a corollary a model for the existence of a strongly compact cardinal κ which is not κ+ supercompact but which is indestructible under κ-directed closed forcing not changing ℘(κ) and remains non-κ+ supercompact after such a forcing has been done.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 149 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1998

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