Brent Cody



Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Virginia Commonwealth University

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I was born in Richmond, VA, obtained an undergraduate degrees in Mathematics at VCU, finished my PhD at the City University of New York with Joel David Hamkins in 2012, and now I am an associate professor at VCU.

Previously I held visiting positions at the Fields Institute, University of Prince Edward Island and VCU.

My research is in the area of set theory. Most of my recent work is on ideals associated to large cardinals. For example, I've done work on combinatorial principles and forcing constructions related to the large cardinal properties of Ramseyness, ineffability and indescribability. I've also worked on strong properties of successor cardinals that hold after collapsing large cardinals and on preserving large cardinals through Easton-support forcing iterations.

  1. (with Sean Cox and Kayla Lee) Sparse analytic systems. Submitted. (pdf)
  2. (with Philip White) Two-cardinal ideal operators and indescribability. Submitted. (pdf)
  3. (with Peter Holy) Ideal operators and higher indescribability. Accepted 7/20/22 at Journal of Symbolic Logic. (pdf)
  4. Higher indescribability and derived topologies. Accepted at Journal of Mathematical Logic. (pdf)
  5. Large cardinal ideals. Accepted chapter for Research Trends in Contemporary Logic, 49 pages. (pdf)
  6. (with Victoria Gitman and Chris Lambie-Hanson) Forcing a \(\square(\kappa)\)-like principle to hold at a weakly compact cardinal. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 172 (7):102960, 26 pp., 2021. (pdf)
  7. A refinement of the Ramsey hierarchy via indescribability. Journal of Symbolic Logic, 85 (2):773-808, 2020. (pdf)
  8. Characterizations of the weakly compact ideal on \(P_\kappa\lambda\). Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 171 (6):23 pages, 2020. (pdf)
  9. (with Hiroshi Sakai) The weakly compact reflection principle need not imply a high order of weak compactness. Archive for Mathematical Logic, 59 (1):179-196, 2020. (pdf)
  10. Adding a non-reflecting weakly compact set. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 60 (3):503-521, 2019. (pdf)
  11. (with Monroe Eskew) Rigid ideals, Israel Journal of Mathematics, 224 (1):343-366, 2018. (pdf)
  12. (with Sean Cox) Indestructibility of generically strong cardinals, Fundamenta Mathematicae, 232 (2):131-149, 2016. (pdf)
  13. (with Moti Gitik, Joel David Hamkins, and Jason Schanker) The least weakly compact cardinal can be unfoldable, weakly measurable and nearly \(\theta\)-supercompact, Archive for Mathematical Logic, 54 (5-6):491-510, 2015. (pdf)
  14. (with Victoria Gitman) Easton's theorem for Ramsey and strongly Ramsey cardinals, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 166 (9):934-952, 2015. (pdf)
  15. (with Sy Friedman and Radek Honzik) Easton functions and supercompactness, Fundamenta Mathematicae, 226 (3):279-296, 2014. (pdf)
  16. (with Menachem Magidor) On Supercompactness and the continuum function, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 165 (2):620-630, 2014. (pdf)
  17. Easton's Theorem in the presence of Woodin cardinals, Archive for Mathematical Logic, 52 (5-6):569-591, 2013. (pdf)
  18. (with A. W. Apter) Consecutive singular cardinals and the continuum function, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 54 (2):125-136, 2013. (pdf)
  19. The failure of GCH at a degree of supercompactness, Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 58 (1-2):83-94, 2012. (pdf)

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