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Destroying scales

Suppose $\lambda$ is a cardinal with uncountable cofinality and $C\subseteq\lambda$ is a club of ordertype cf$(\lambda)$. Let $f=\langle f_\xi\mid\xi<\lambda^+\rangle$ be a scale consisting of ...
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Continuum function maximum

Easton's theorem can give a very weak nontrivial constraint on continuum function, but it does not hold for singular cardinals. So: What are the non-trivial constraints on continuum function in ...
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Can we bound $2^{\aleph_\omega}$ without pcf theory?

One of the famous applications of pcf theory is that if $\aleph_\omega$ is a strong limit cardinal then $2^{\aleph_\omega}<\aleph_{\omega_4}$. I'm curious whether any weaker result with the same ...
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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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PCF conjecture and fixed points of the $\aleph$-function

Recently Moti Gitik refuted Shelah's PCF conjecture, by producing a countable set $a$ of regular cardinals with $|\operatorname{pcf}(a)| \geq \aleph_1.$ See his papers Short extenders forcings I and ...
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Prevalent singular cardinals hypothesis

The following notion is introduced by Assaf Rinot: Definition. A singular cardinal $\kappa$ is a prevalent singular cardinal iff there exists a family $\mathbb{A}\subset P(\kappa)$ with $|\mathbb{A}...
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