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Small Forcing Makes Any Cardinal Superdestructible

Logic 2016-07-05 v1

Abstract

Small forcing always ruins the indestructibility of an indestructible supercompact cardinal. In fact, after small forcing, any cardinal κ\kappa becomes superdestructible---any further <κ{<}\kappa-closed forcing which adds a subset to κ\kappa will destroy the measurability, even the weak compactness, of κ\kappa. Nevertheless, after small forcing indestructible cardinals remain resurrectible, but never strongly resurrectible.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1607.00684,
  title  = {Small Forcing Makes Any Cardinal Superdestructible},
  author = {Joel David Hamkins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00684},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This paper appeared in 1998; I have finally now uploaded the article to the arxiv. Commentary concerning this article can be made on the author's blog at http://jdh.hamkins.org/superdestructibility/

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