Speaker:
Ryan Sullivant
Institution:
UCI
Time:
Monday, February 26, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Host:
Location:
RH 440R
In this talk, we will continue with basics of measurable cardinals and their relationship to non-trivial elementary embeddings. We proceed with basic facts about the constructible universe, L. After laying this groundwork, we show L cannot have a measurable cardinal. Time permitting, we will discuss the dichotomy introduced by Jensen's covering lemma: either L is a good approximation to V, or there is a non-trivial elementary embedding from L to L.