Models for short sequences of measures in the cofinality-$\omega$ constructible model

Abstract

We investigate the relation between $C^{\ast }$, the model of sets constructible using first order logic augmented with the "cofinality-$\omega$" quantifier, and "short" sequences of measures - sequences of measures of order $1$, which are shorter than their minimum. We show that certain core models for short sequences of measures are contained in $C^{\ast }$; we compute $C^{\ast }$ in a model of the form $L\left[\mathcal{U}\right]$ where $\mathcal{U}$ is a short sequence of measures, and in models of the form $L\left[\mathcal{U}\right]\left[G\right]$ where $G$ is generic for adding Prikry sequences to some of the measurables of $\mathcal{U}$; and prove that if there is an inner model with a short sequence of measures of order type $\chi$, then there is such an inner model in $C^{\ast }$.

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