In axiomatic set theory, Shelah cardinals are a kind of large cardinals. A cardinal is called Shelah iff for every , there exists a transitive class and an elementary embedding with critical point ; and .
A Shelah cardinal has a normal ultrafilter containing the set of weakly hyper-Woodin cardinals below it.
References
- Ernest Schimmerling, Woodin cardinals, Shelah cardinals and the Mitchell-Steel core model, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 130/11, pp. 3385-3391, 2002, online