List of large cardinal properties


This page includes a list of large cardinal properties in the mathematical field of set theory. It is arranged roughly in order of the consistency strength of the axiom asserting the existence of cardinals with the given property. Existence of a cardinal number κ of a given type implies the existence of cardinals of most of the types listed above that type, and for most listed cardinal descriptions φ of lesser consistency strength, Vκ satisfies "there is an unbounded class of cardinals satisfying φ".
The following table usually arranges cardinals in order of consistency strength, with size of the cardinal used as a tiebreaker. In a few cases the exact consistency strength is not known and the table uses the current best guess.
The following even stronger large cardinal properties are not consistent with the axiom of choice, but their existence has not yet been refuted in ZF alone.