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Some structural results concerning supercompact cardinals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Arthur W. Apter*
Affiliation:
Baruch College of CUNY, Department of Mathematics, New York, New York 10010, USA, E-Mail: awabb@cunyvm.cuny.edu, URL: http://math.baruch.cuny.edu/~apter

Abstract.

We show how the forcing of [5] can be iterated so as to get a model containing supercompact cardinals in which every measurable cardinal δ is δ+ supercompact. We then apply this iteration to prove three additional theorems concerning the structure of the class of supercompact cardinals.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2001

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