On Ultrapowers and Cohesive Ultrafilters
Abstract
We characterize the Tukey order, the Galvin property/ Cohesive ultrafilters from \cite{Kanamori1978} in terms of ultrapowers. We use this characterization to measure the distance between the Tukey order and other well-known orders of ultrafilters. Secondly, we improve two theorems of Kanamori \cite{Kanamori1978} from the 70's. We then study the point spectrum and the depth spectrum of an ultrafilter, and give a simple positive answer to Kanamori's question \cite[Question 2]{Kanamori1978} starting from a supercompact cardinal. We also prove that a positive answer requires more than . Finally, we prove several consistency results regarding the point and depth spectrum.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.06275,
title = {On Ultrapowers and Cohesive Ultrafilters},
author = {Tom Benhamou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06275},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
(1) We replace the surgery argument with the extender-based Radin forcing technique. (2) We added the result that a positive answer to Kanamori's question requires more than o(\kappa)=\kappa^{++}