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6 hours ago comment added Elliot Glazer The definition Jech uses in his paper in which he proves $\omega_1$ can be weakly compact or measurable (each relative to such a large cardinal in ZFC) is the partition characterization: an uncountable well-ordered cardinal $\kappa$ is weakly compact if $\kappa \rightarrow (\kappa)^2_2.$
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7 hours ago comment added Joel David Hamkins But the tree property alone is not equivalent to weak compactness even in ZFC, unless one also specifies that the cardinal is inaccessible. But $\omega_1$ is never inaccessible.
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7 hours ago comment added new account @JoelDavidHamkins Thanks for reminding me. I chose to use the definition via tree property and added the requirement that the underlying set should be $\kappa$, since otherwise I don't see how measurability implies weak compactness. Is it necessary?
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7 hours ago comment added Joel David Hamkins There are over a dozen common characterizations of weak compactness in ZFC, but they are not all equivalent in ZF+DC, so could you let us know which version of weakly compact you want?
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