Consequences
Woodin cardinals are important in descriptive set theory. By a result of Martin and Steel, existence of infinitely many Woodin cardinals implies projective determinacy, which in turn implies that every projective set is measurable, has the Baire property (differs from an open set by a meager set, that is, a set which is a countable union of nowhere dense sets), and the perfect set property (is either countable or contains a perfect subset).
The consistency of the existence of Woodin cardinals can be proved using determinacy hypotheses. Working in ZF+AD+DC one can prove that is Woodin in the class of hereditarily ordinal-definable sets. is the first ordinal onto which the continuum cannot be mapped by an ordinal-definable surjection (see Θ (set theory)).
Shelah proved that if the existence of a Woodin cardinal is consistent then it is consistent that the nonstationary ideal on ω1 is -saturated. Woodin also proved the equiconsistency of the existence of infinitely many Woodin cardinals and the existence of an -dense ideal over .
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