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Measurable cardinals are weakly compact
Statement
In ZFC every measurable cardinal is weakly compact.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ZFC. Normalized the measure, chose its unique tail colors, and used a measure-one diagonal intersection to calculate a kappa-sized homogeneous set.
Measurability, normal measures and elementary embeddings: A measurable cardinal carries a normal measure closed under diagonal intersections.
Measurable cardinals are inaccessible: Kappa is inaccessible and every measure-one subset has size kappa.
Tree and partition characterizations at an inaccessible: At an inaccessible, the two-color partition property implies weak compactness.
The Axiom of Choice: ZFC propagates through normalization and the partition characterization.
Proof
Let U be a normal measure on kappa, supplied by F1, and fix a coloring . For each alpha<kappa the tail above alpha is measure one by F2. Its two color fibres are disjoint and cover that tail; exactly one belongs to U by the ultrafilter laws. Let i_alpha be this uniquely determined color and A_alpha its fibre. Exactly one of the sets , i<2, belongs to U. Fix its color i. These selections are unique finite decisions, with no extra choice beyond the ambient F4.
By F1 the diagonal intersection belongs to U. Thus H=H_i intersect D belongs to U and has size kappa by F2. If alpha<beta both belong to H, then alpha lies in H_i and beta lies in D, so beta belongs to A_alpha and c(alpha,beta)=i_alpha=i. Hence H is homogeneous. F2 makes kappa inaccessible, and F3 turns this two-color partition property into weak compactness.
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Sources
- Monk Chapter 10 normal-measure partition proof p.111 and Chapter 17; local two-color specialization (standard reference, not scraped)