HOD-supercompactness, Indestructibility, and Level by Level Equivalence
Volume 62 / 2014
Abstract
In an attempt to extend the property of being supercompact but not HOD-supercompact to a proper class of indestructibly supercompact cardinals, a theorem is discovered about a proper class of indestructibly supercompact cardinals which reveals a surprising incompatibility. However, it is still possible to force to get a model in which the property of being supercompact but not HOD-supercompact holds for the least supercompact cardinal , \kappa _0 is indestructibly supercompact, the strongly compact and supercompact cardinals coincide except at measurable limit points, and level by level equivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness holds above \kappa _0 but fails below \kappa _0. Additionally, we get the property of being supercompact but not HOD-supercompact at the least supercompact cardinal, in a model where level by level equivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness holds.
