Английская Википедия:Extendible cardinal

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In mathematics, extendible cardinals are large cardinals introduced by Шаблон:Harvtxt, who was partly motivated by reflection principles. Intuitively, such a cardinal represents a point beyond which initial pieces of the universe of sets start to look similar, in the sense that each is elementarily embeddable into a later one.

Definition

For every ordinal η, a cardinal κ is called η-extendible if for some ordinal λ there is a nontrivial elementary embedding j of Vκ+η into Vλ, where κ is the critical point of j, and as usual Vα denotes the αth level of the von Neumann hierarchy. A cardinal κ is called an extendible cardinal if it is η-extendible for every nonzero ordinal η (Kanamori 2003).

Properties

For a cardinal <math>\kappa</math>, say that a logic <math>L</math> is <math>\kappa</math>-compact if for every set <math>A</math> of <math>L</math>-sentences, if every subset of <math>A</math> or cardinality <math><\kappa</math> has a model, then <math>A</math> has a model. (The usual compactness theorem shows <math>\aleph_0</math>-compactness of first-order logic.) Let <math>L_\kappa^2</math> be the infinitary logic for second-order set theory, permitting infinitary conjunctions and disjunctions of length <math><\kappa</math>. <math>\kappa</math> is extendible iff <math>L_\kappa^2</math> is <math>\kappa</math>-compact.[1]

Variants and relation to other cardinals

A cardinal κ is called η-C(n)-extendible if there is an elementary embedding j witnessing that κ is η-extendible (that is, j is elementary from Vκ+η to some Vλ with critical point κ) such that furthermore, Vj(κ) is Σn-correct in V. That is, for every Σn formula φ, φ holds in Vj(κ) if and only if φ holds in V. A cardinal κ is said to be C(n)-extendible if it is η-C(n)-extendible for every ordinal η. Every extendible cardinal is C(1)-extendible, but for n≥1, the least C(n)-extendible cardinal is never C(n+1)-extendible (Bagaria 2011).

Vopěnka's principle implies the existence of extendible cardinals; in fact, Vopěnka's principle (for definable classes) is equivalent to the existence of C(n)-extendible cardinals for all n (Bagaria 2011). All extendible cardinals are supercompact cardinals (Kanamori 2003).

See also

References

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