English

Huge Reflection

Logic 2024-01-02 v3

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 (ESR\mathrm{ESR}). Namely, given cardinals κ<λ\kappa<\lambda and a class C\mathcal{C} of structures of the same type, the corresponding instance of ESR\mathrm{ESR} asserts that for every structure AA in C\mathcal{C} of rank λ\lambda, there is a structure BB in C\mathcal{C} of rank κ\kappa and an elementary embedding of BB into AA. Inspired by the statement of Chang's Conjecture, we also introduce and study sequential forms of ESR\mathrm{ESR}, which, in the case of sequences of length ω\omega, turn out to be very strong. Indeed, when restricted to Π1\Pi_1-definable classes of structures they follow from the existence of I1I1-embeddings, while for more complicated classes of structures, e.g., Σ2\Sigma_2, they are not known to be consistent. Thus, these principles unveil a new class of large cardinals that go beyond I1I1-embeddings, yet they may not fall into Kunen's Inconsistency.

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@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"

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