 Nonabsoluteness of singular cardinalhood (source code)

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= Nonabsoluteness of singular cardinalhood

The statement that $\kappa$ is a <cardinal number> with $\operatorname{cf}(\kappa)<\kappa$ is generally neither upward nor downward absolute. Upward absoluteness can fail when a larger model collapses the cardinal; downward absoluteness can fail when a larger model adds a short cofinal sequence to a cardinal that the smaller model regards as regular.

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