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The least weakly compact cardinal can be unfoldable, weakly measurable and nearly $\theta$-supercompact

Logic 2013-05-28 v1

Abstract

We prove from suitable large cardinal hypotheses that the least weakly compact cardinal can be unfoldable, weakly measurable and even nearly θ\theta-supercompact, for any desired θ\theta. In addition, we prove several global results showing how the entire class of weakly compact cardinals, a proper class, can be made to coincide with the class of unfoldable cardinals, with the class of weakly measurable cardinals or with the class of nearly θκ\theta_\kappa-supercompact cardinals κ\kappa, for nearly any desired function κθκ\kappa\mapsto\theta_\kappa. These results answer several questions that had been open in the literature and extend to these large cardinals the identity-crises phenomenon, first identified by Magidor with the strongly compact cardinals.

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@article{arxiv.1305.5961,
  title  = {The least weakly compact cardinal can be unfoldable, weakly measurable and nearly $\theta$-supercompact},
  author = {Brent Cody and Moti Gitik and Joel David Hamkins and Jason Schanker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.5961},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

25 pages. Commentary concerning this paper can be made at http://jdh.hamkins.org/least-weakly-compact