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Ramsey-like cardinals II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Victoria Gitman
Affiliation:
New York City College of Technology (CUNY), 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA, E-mail: [email protected]
P. D. Welch
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1TW, UK, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

This paper continues the study of the Ramsey-like large cardinals introduced in [5] and [14]. Ramsey-like cardinals are defined by generalizing the characterization of Ramsey cardinals via the existence of elementary embeddings. Ultrafilters derived from such embeddings are fully iterable and so it is natural to ask about large cardinal notions asserting the existence of ultrafilters allowing only α-many iterations for some countable ordinal α. Here we study such α-iterable cardinals. We show that the α-iterable cardinals form a strict hierarchy for αω1, that they are downward absolute to L for , and that the consistency strength of Schindler's remarkable cardinals is strictly between 1-iterable and 2-iterable cardinals.

We show that the strongly Ramsey and super Ramsey cardinals from [5] are downward absolute to the core model K. Finally, we use a forcing argument from a strongly Ramsey cardinal to separate the notions of Ramsey and virtually Ramsey cardinals. These were introduced in [14] as an upper bound on the consistency strength of the Intermediate Chang's Conjecture.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2011

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