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The Ultrapower Axiom and the equivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness

Logic 2018-10-12 v1

Abstract

The relationship between the large cardinal notions of strong compactness and supercompactness cannot be determined under the standard ZFC axioms of set theory. Under a hypothesis called the Ultrapower Axiom, we prove that the notions are equivalent except for a class of counterexamples identified by Menas. This is evidence that strongly compact and supercompact cardinals are equiconsistent.

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@article{arxiv.1810.05058,
  title  = {The Ultrapower Axiom and the equivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness},
  author = {Gabriel Goldberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05058},
  year   = {2018}
}