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A universal indestructibility theorem compatible with level by level equivalence

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We prove an indestructibility theorem for degrees of supercompactness that is compatible with level by level equivalence between strong compactness and supercompactness.

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Correspondence to Arthur W. Apter.

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The author’s research was partially supported by PSC-CUNY grants.

The author would like to thank the referee for helpful comments and suggestions which have been incorporated into the current version of the paper.

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Apter, A.W. A universal indestructibility theorem compatible with level by level equivalence. Arch. Math. Logic 54, 463–470 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00153-015-0421-3

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