Source: J. Symbolic Logic Volume 74, Issue 1
(2009), 315-335.
We show that either of the following hypotheses imply
that there is an inner model with a proper class of strong cardinals and a proper class of Woodin cardinals. 1) There is a countably closed cardinal
κ ≥ ℵ3 such that □κ and □(κ)
fail. 2) There is a cardinal κ such that κ is weakly
compact in the generic extension by Col(κ,κ+). Of
special interest is 1) with κ = ℵ3 since it follows from PFA
by theorems of Todorcevic and Velickovic. Our main new technical result, which is due to the first author, is a weak covering theorem for the model obtained by stacking mice over Kc || κ.
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