Using techniques of Kimchi and Magidor, we generalize an earlier result and show that it is relatively consistent for the first n strongly compact cardinals to be somewhat supercompact yet not fully supercompact. The class of strongly compact cardinals is, without a doubt, one of the most peculiar in the entire theory of large cardinals. As is well known, the class of strongly compact cardinals...

This paper considers the classical Shannon sampling theorem in multiresolution spaceswith scaling functions as interpolants. As discussed by Xia and Zhang, for an orthogonal scaling function to support such a sampling theorem, the scaling function must be cardinal. They also showed that the only orthogonal scaling function that is both cardinal and of compact support is the Haar function, which...

This paper is centered on an extremely general problem: Problem. Is it consistent (perhaps modulo large cardinals) that a locally compact space X must be the union of countably many ω-bounded subspaces if every closed discrete subspace of X is countable [in other words, if X is ω1-compact]? A space is ω-bounded if every countable subset has compact closure. This is a strengthening of countable ...