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Questions about the continuum hypothesis, or where the continuum hypothesis or its negation plays a role. This tag is also suitable, by extension, to refer to the generalized continuum hypothesis and related issues.

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Must uncountable standard models of ZFC satisfy CH?

Here is a dichotomy which is close to what you want. Given a model $V$ of $\mathrm{ZFC} + \mathrm{CH}$. If $\omega_1^V$ is inaccessible to reals then every real number is contained in an uncountable …
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When $2^\alpha = 2^\beta$ implies $\alpha=\beta$ ($\alpha,\beta$ cardinals)

The Generalized Continuum Hypothesis, i.e. $2^\kappa = \kappa^+$ for every infinite cardinal $\kappa$, implies the desired result, but it can hold in other circumstances. For example, Woodin has shown …
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