On a Conjecture Regarding the Mouse Order for Weasels
Abstract
We investigate Steel's conjecture in 'The Core Model Iterability Problem', that if and are -iterable, -small weasels, then iff there is a club such that for all , if is regular, then the cardinal successor of in is less or equal than the cardinal successor of in . We will show that the conjecture fails, assuming that there is an iterable premouse which models and which has a -Woodin cardinal. On the other hand, we show that assuming there is no transitive model of with a Woodin cardinal the conjecture holds. In the course of this we will also show that if is an iterable admissible premouse with a largest, regular, uncountable cardinal , and is a forcing poset with the -c.c. in , and is -generic, but not necessarily -generic, is a model of . Moreover, if is such a mouse and is maximal normal iteration tree on such that is non-dropping on its main branch, then 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