Large cardinals with few measures

[bibtex key=ApterCummingsHamkins2006:LargeCardinalsWithFewMeasures]

We show, assuming the consistency of one measurable cardinal, that it is consistent for there to be exactly κ+ many normal measures on the least measurable cardinal κ. This answers a question of Stewart Baldwin. The methods generalize to higher cardinals, showing that the number of λ-strong compactness or λ-supercompactness measures on Pκ(λ) can be exactly λ+, if λ>κ is a regular cardinal. We conclude with a list of open questions. Our proofs use a critical observation due to James Cummings.

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