The weakly compact reflection principle need not imply a high order of weak compactness

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Abstract: The weakly compact reflection principle extReflextwc(kappa) states that kappa is a weakly compact cardinal and every weakly compact subset of kappa has a weakly compact proper initial segment. The weakly compact reflection principle at kappa implies that kappa is an omega-weakly compact cardinal. In this article we show that the weakly compact reflection principle does not imply that kappa is (omega+1)-weakly compact. Moreover, we show that if the weakly compact reflection principle holds at kappa then there is a forcing extension preserving this in which kappa is the least omega-weakly compact cardinal. Along the way we generalize the well-known result which states that if kappa is a regular cardinal then in any forcing extension by kappa-c.c. forcing the nonstationary ideal equals the ideal generated by the ground model nonstationary ideal; our generalization states that if kappa is a weakly compact cardinal then after forcing with a `typical' Easton-support iteration of length kappa the weakly compact ideal equals the ideal generated by the ground model weakly compact ideal.









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