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Changing the cofinality of a regular cardinal without collapsing any cardinals?

I have a short but hopefully interesting question on cardinal arithmetic and collapsing cardinals: Is it possible to change the cofinality of a regular cardinal without collapsing any cardinals? Is ...
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Generic two-cardinal behavior of first-order sentences

This is a hopefully improved version of a question I asked before and then deleted because it was based on some fundamentally incorrect assumptions. Some first-order theories are able to control the ...
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Gitik's work on Shelah's weak hypothesis

It seems that Moti Gitik has recently refuted some variants of Shelah's weak hypothesis. For this see the title and abstract of his talk at the Set Theory, Model Theory and Applications conference. I ...
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Getting PFA + GCH above $\omega$

The Proper Forcing Axiom kills CH in a particularly specific way: it implies that $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_2$. However, its impact on the continuum function above $\aleph_0$ is much less clear. It is ...
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