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Weak Compactness and No Partial Squares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

John Krueger*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311430, Denton, TX 76203, USA, E-mail: jkrueger@unt.edu

Abstract

We present a characterization of weakly compact cardinals in terms of generalized stationarity. We apply this characterization to construct a model with no partial square sequences.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2011

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