Huge Reflection
Abstract
We study Structural Reflection beyond Vop\v{e}nka's Principle, at the level of almost-huge cardinals and higher, up to rank-into-rank embeddings. We identify and classify new large cardinal notions in that region that correspond to some form of what we call Exact Structural Reflection (). Namely, given cardinals and a class of structures of the same type, the corresponding instance of asserts that for every structure in of rank , there is a structure in of rank and an elementary embedding of into . Inspired by the statement of Chang's Conjecture, we also introduce and study sequential forms of , which, in the case of sequences of length , turn out to be very strong. Indeed, when restricted to -definable classes of structures they follow from the existence of -embeddings, while for more complicated classes of structures, e.g., , they are not known to be consistent. Thus, these principles unveil a new class of large cardinals that go beyond -embeddings, yet they may not fall into Kunen's Inconsistency.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.01462,
title = {Huge Reflection},
author = {Joan Bagaria and Philipp Lücke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.01462},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
This is an update of the published version of the paper that corrects a problem in the definition of "weakly exact cardinals"