Chang's conjecture may fail at supercompact cardinals

We prove a revised version of Laver's indestructibility theorem which slightly improves over the classical result. An application yields the consistency of $(\kappa^+,\kappa)\notcc(\aleph_1,\aleph_0)$ when $\kappa$ is supercompact. The actual proofs show that $\omega_1$-regressive Kurepa-trees are consistent above a supercompact cardinal even though ${\rm MM}$ destroys them on all regular cardinals. This rather paradoxical fact contradicts the common intuition.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00023748
Author Koenig, Bernhard
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 26, 2026, 22:14 (UTC)
Created May 26, 2026, 22:14 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00023748
Language en
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contributor Équipe de Logique Mathématique (ELM) ; Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Koenig, Bernhard
date 2006-05-04T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
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relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/math.LO/0605128
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