We isolate a new forcing axiom, ${\rm wPFA}$, which is strictly between ${\rm BPFA}$ and ${\rm PFA}$. ${\rm wPFA}$ is equiconsistent with a remarkable cardinal, it implies the failure of $\square_{\omega_1}$, but it is compatible with $\square_\kappa$ for all $\kappa \geq \omega_2$. This is part of joint work with J. Bagaria and V. Gitman.

I will use a supercompact cardinal to force the Proper Forcing Axiom (PFA). I will follow Baumgartner’s original argumet, but will use lottery sums instead of a Laver function.

While the consistency strength of PFA is quite high in the large cardinal hierarchy, it is reasonable to expect that tame fragments of PFA should require much weaker assumptions. I will present an argument of Hamkins and Johnstone (2008) which shows the consistency of PFA for posets preserving aleph_2 or aleph_3 from a strongly unfoldable cardinal, a much smaller large cardinal which is, roughly speaking, to strongness (or supercompactness) as weak compactness is to measurability.