Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2020
We define a weak iterability notion that is sufficient for a number of arguments concerning $\Sigma _{1}$ -definability at uncountable regular cardinals. In particular we give its exact consistency strength first in terms of the second uniform indiscernible for bounded subsets of $\kappa $ : $u_2(\kappa )$ , and secondly to give the consistency strength of a property of Lücke’s.
TheoremThe following are equiconsistent:
(i) There exists $\kappa $ which is stably measurable;
(ii) for some cardinal $\kappa $ , $u_2(\kappa )=\sigma (\kappa )$ ;
(iii) The $\boldsymbol {\Sigma }_{1}$ -club property holds at a cardinal $\kappa $ .
Here $\sigma (\kappa )$ is the height of the smallest $M \prec _{\Sigma _{1}} H ( \kappa ^{+} )$ containing $\kappa +1$ and all of $H ( \kappa )$ . Let $\Phi (\kappa )$ be the assertion:
TheoremAssume $\kappa $ is stably measurable. Then $\Phi (\kappa )$ .
And a form of converse:
TheoremSuppose there is no sharp for an inner model with a strong cardinal. Then in the core model K we have: $\mbox {``}\exists \kappa \Phi (\kappa ) \mbox {''}$ is (set)-generically absolute ${\,\longleftrightarrow \,}$ There are arbitrarily large stably measurable cardinals.
When $u_2(\kappa ) < \sigma (\kappa )$ we give some results on inner model reflection.