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TheoremStatement: Literature-sourcedProof: AI-adaptedPipeline-generatedjudge pass (gpt-5.6-terra)audited 2026-09-07
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Regular cofinality strata are stationary

Statement

In ZFC, if λ is an infinite regular cardinal with λ<cf(θ), then Eλθ is stationary in θ.

Facts & Assumptions

Proof

Given: The objects and hypotheses in the statement.

1.1

Given a club Cθ, define a strictly increasing sequence (cξ)ξ<λ in C: start at minC, take the least greater C point at successors, and at nonzero limits take the supremum. Every such supremum is below theta since its index is below cf(θ), and closure places it in C. Likewise δ=supξ<λcξ<θ belongs to C.

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2.1

This sequence gives cf(δ)λ. If a cofinal subset Bδ had size μ<λ, assign to each bB the least ξ<λ with b<cξ. These indices would be unbounded in lambda: a bound would bound B below delta. Regularity of lambda rules this out. Therefore cf(δ)=λ, so C meets the stratum. Since C was arbitrary the stratum is stationary.

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