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On a Conjecture Regarding the Mouse Order for Weasels

Logic 2025-04-16 v2

Abstract

We investigate Steel's conjecture in 'The Core Model Iterability Problem', that if WW and RR are Ω+1\Omega+1-iterable, 11-small weasels, then WRW\leq^{*}R iff there is a club CΩC\subset\Omega such that for all αC\alpha\in C, if α\alpha is regular, then the cardinal successor of α\alpha in WW is less or equal than the cardinal successor of α\alpha in RR . We will show that the conjecture fails, assuming that there is an iterable premouse which models KPKP and which has a Σ1\Sigma_{1}-Woodin cardinal. On the other hand, we show that assuming there is no transitive model of KPKP with a Woodin cardinal the conjecture holds. In the course of this we will also show that if MM is an iterable admissible premouse with a largest, regular, uncountable cardinal δ\delta, and P\mathbb{P} is a forcing poset with the δ\delta-c.c. in MM, and gg is MM-generic, but not necessarily Σ1\Sigma_{1}-generic, M[g]M[g] is a model of KPKP. Moreover, if MM is such a mouse and TT is maximal normal iteration tree on MM such that TT is non-dropping on its main branch, then MTM_{\infty}^{T} is again an iterable admissible premouse with a largest regular and uncountable cardinal. At last we answer another open question from 'The Core Model Iterability Problem' regarding the S-hull property.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2207.06136,
  title  = {On a Conjecture Regarding the Mouse Order for Weasels},
  author = {Jan Kruschewski and Farmer Schlutzenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.06136},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

30 pages. Changes to v2: Change of Title. New section about the S-hull property was added. Proposition 34 was weakened. Various minor corrections were made

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