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THE Σ1-DEFINABLE UNIVERSAL FINITE SEQUENCE

Part of: Nonstandard models Set theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2021

JOEL DAVID HAMKINS  and
KAMERYN J. WILLIAMS
JOEL DAVID HAMKINS
Affiliation:
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY QUARTER 555 WOODSTOCK ROAD OXFORD, OX2 6GG, UK and UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HIGH STREET OXFORD, OX1 4BH, UKE-mail:joeldavid.hamkins@philosophy.ox.ac.ukURL: http://jdh.hamkins.org
KAMERYN J. WILLIAMS
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA 2565 MCCARTHY MALL KELLER 401A HONOLULU, HI 96822, USAE-mail:kamerynw@hawaii.eduURL: http://kamerynjw.net
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Abstract

We introduce the $\Sigma _1$ -definable universal finite sequence and prove that it exhibits the universal extension property amongst the countable models of set theory under end-extension. That is, (i) the sequence is $\Sigma _1$ -definable and provably finite; (ii) the sequence is empty in transitive models; and (iii) if M is a countable model of set theory in which the sequence is s and t is any finite extension of s in this model, then there is an end-extension of M to a model in which the sequence is t. Our proof method grows out of a new infinitary-logic-free proof of the Barwise extension theorem, by which any countable model of set theory is end-extended to a model of $V=L$ or indeed any theory true in a suitable submodel of the original model. The main theorem settles the modal logic of end-extensional potentialism, showing that the potentialist validities of the models of set theory under end-extensions are exactly the assertions of S4. Finally, we introduce the end-extensional maximality principle, which asserts that every possibly necessary sentence is already true, and show that every countable model extends to a model satisfying it.

Keywords

potentialismend-extensions of models of set theorymaximality principles

MSC classification

Primary: 03H05: Nonstandard models in mathematics
Secondary: 03E40: Other aspects of forcing and Boolean-valued models 03E45: Inner models, including constructibility, ordinal definability, and core models
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 87 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 783 - 801
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Association for Symbolic Logic

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