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Large Cardinals from Determinacy

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This chapter gives an account of Woodin’s general technique for deriving large cardinal strength from determinacy hypotheses. These results appear here for the first time and the treatment is self-contained.

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Koellner, P., Woodin, W.H. (2010). Large Cardinals from Determinacy. In: Foreman, M., Kanamori, A. (eds) Handbook of Set Theory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5764-9_24

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