Large Large Cardinals and Kunen's Inconsistency | Department of Mathematics

Large Large Cardinals and Kunen's Inconsistency

Event Information
Event Location: 
GAB 461
Event Date: 
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 3:30pm

We will discuss from scratch one of the main trends of the strongest hypotheses in set theory: elementary embeddings preserving much of the original universe. We will then show Kunen's result that there is no definable non-trivial embedding which preserves all of the original universe.