Measurable cardinal is one-strong 2026-09-28
The ultrapower embedding associated with a measure on has critical point . For every ,so . Hence every measurable cardinal is 1-strong.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 116 1 b Solution 2026-09-28
An uncountable cardinal is measurable when it carries a nonprincipal ultrafilter that is -complete. For an inaccessible , the cardinal is 1-strong when there is an elementary embeddinginto a transitive model, with critical point and .
The fundamental theorem on measurable cardinals constructs from the well-founded ultrapower and its ultrapower embedding , whose critical point is . The embedding fixes . If , then , and elementarity givesBoth and belong to the transitive target, so . Thus , proving that every measurable cardinal is 1-strong.