On Local Club Condensation

Abstract: We obtain results on the condensation principle called local club condensation. We prove that in extender models an equivalence between the failure of local club condensation and subcompact cardinals holds. This gives a characterization of $\square_{\kappa}$ in terms of local club condensation in extender models. Assuming $\gch$, given an interval of ordinals $I$ we verify that iterating the forcing defined by Holy-Welch-Wu, we can preserve $\gch$, cardinals and cofinalities and obtain a model where local club condensation holds for every ordinal in $I$ modulo those ordinals which cardinality is a singular cardinal. We prove that if $\kappa$ is a regular cardinal in an interval $I$, the above iteration provides enough condensation for the combinatorial principle $\Dl_{S}^{*}(\Pi^{1}_{2})$, and in particular $\diamondsuit(S)$, to hold for any stationary $S \subseteq \kappa$.