Remarkable cardinal

In mathematics, a remarkable cardinal is a certain kind of large cardinal number.

A cardinal κ is called remarkable if for all regular cardinals θ > κ, there exist π, M, λ, σ, N and ρ such that

1. π : M → H_θ is an elementary embedding
2. M is countable and transitive
3. π(λ) = κ
4. σ : M → N is an elementary embedding with critical point λ
5. N is countable and transitive
6. ρ = M ∩ Ord is a regular cardinal in N
7. σ(λ) > ρ
8. M = H_ρ^N, i.e., M ∈ N and N |= "M is the set of all sets that are hereditarily smaller than ρ"

See also

• Hereditarily countable set

References

• Schindler, Ralf (2000), "Proper forcing and remarkable cardinals", The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 6 (2): 176–184, doi:10.2307/421205, ISSN 1079-8986, MR1765054, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~asl/bsl/0602/0602-003.ps