Choiceless cardinals and the continuum problem
Logic
2022-01-28 v1
Abstract
Under large cardinal hypotheses beyond the Kunen inconsistency -- hypotheses so strong as to contradict the Axiom of Choice -- we solve several variants of the generalized continuum problem and identify structural features of the levels of the cumulative hierarchy of sets that are eventually periodic, alternating according to the parity of the ordinal . For example, if there is an elementary embedding from the universe of sets to itself, then for sufficiently large ordinals , the supremum of the lengths of all wellfounded relations on is a strong limit cardinal if and only if is odd.
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@article{arxiv.2201.11557,
title = {Choiceless cardinals and the continuum problem},
author = {Gabriel Goldberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11557},
year = {2022}
}
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15 pages