Main Definitions
If A is an infinite set of regular cardinals, D is an ultrafilter on A, then we let denote the cofinality of the ordered set of functions where the ordering is defined as follows. if . pcf(A) is the set of cofinalities that occur if we consider all ultrafilters on A, that is,
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