Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 116 1 a i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
A strongly inaccessible cardinal is an uncountable regular cardinal that is also a strong limit cardinal:
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 116 1 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Let witness that is measurable. Regularity is given, so it remains to prove the strong limit cardinal property. First, every has cardinality : if , thenby nonprincipality and -completeness, contradicting .
Suppose and . Choose an injection . For each , exactly one oflies in . Their chosen intersection lies in by -completeness. On that intersection every is the same subset of , contradicting injectivity because every member of has size . Thus , and is strongly inaccessible.