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A hierarchy of Ramsey-like cardinals
We introduce a hierarchy of large cardinals between weakly compact and
measurable cardinals, that is closely related to the Ramsey-like cardinals
introduced by Victoria Gitman, and is based on certain infinite filter games,
however also has a range of equivalent characterizations in terms of elementary
embeddings. The aim of this paper is to locate the Ramsey-like cardinals
studied by Gitman, and other well-known large cardinal notions, in this
hierarchy
Combinatorial Properties and Dependent choice in symmetric extensions based on L\'{e}vy Collapse
We work with symmetric extensions based on L\'{e}vy Collapse and extend a few
results of Arthur Apter. We prove a conjecture of Ioanna Dimitriou from her
P.h.d. thesis. We also observe that if is a model of ZFC, then
can be preserved in the symmetric extension of in terms of
symmetric system , if
is -distributive and is -complete.
Further we observe that if is a model of ZF + , then
can be preserved in the symmetric extension of in terms of
symmetric system , if
is -strategically closed and is
-complete.Comment: Revised versio
Measurable cardinals and good -wellorderings
We study the influence of the existence of large cardinals on the existence
of wellorderings of power sets of infinite cardinals with the property
that the collection of all initial segments of the wellordering is definable by
a -formula with parameter . A short argument shows that the
existence of a measurable cardinal implies that such wellorderings do
not exist at -inaccessible cardinals of cofinality not equal to
and their successors. In contrast, our main result shows that these
wellorderings exist at all other uncountable cardinals in the minimal model
containing a measurable cardinal. In addition, we show that measurability is
the smallest large cardinal property that interferes with the existence of such
wellorderings at uncountable cardinals and we generalize the above result to
the minimal model containing two measurable cardinals.Comment: 14 page
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