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INITIAL SELF-EMBEDDINGS OF MODELS OF SET THEORY

Part of: Nonstandard models Set theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

ALI ENAYAT  and
ZACHIRI MCKENZIE
ALI ENAYAT
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, LINGUISTICS AND THEORY OF SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURGGOTHENBURG, SWEDENE-mail: ali.enayat@gu.se
ZACHIRI MCKENZIE
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY HANGZHOU, P.R. CHINAE-mail: zach.mckenzie@gmail.com
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Abstract

By a classical theorem of Harvey Friedman (1973), every countable nonstandard model $\mathcal {M}$ of a sufficiently strong fragment of ZF has a proper rank-initial self-embedding j, i.e., j is a self-embedding of $\mathcal {M}$ such that $j[\mathcal {M}]\subsetneq \mathcal {M}$ , and the ordinal rank of each member of $j[\mathcal {M}]$ is less than the ordinal rank of each element of $\mathcal {M}\setminus j[\mathcal {M}]$ . Here, we investigate the larger family of proper initial-embeddings j of models $\mathcal {M}$ of fragments of set theory, where the image of j is a transitive submodel of $\mathcal {M}$ . Our results include the following three theorems. In what follows, $\mathrm {ZF}^-$ is $\mathrm {ZF}$ without the power set axiom; $\mathrm {WO}$ is the axiom stating that every set can be well-ordered; $\mathrm {WF}(\mathcal {M})$ is the well-founded part of $\mathcal {M}$ ; and $\Pi ^1_\infty \text{-}\mathrm {DC}_\alpha $ is the full scheme of dependent choice of length $\alpha $ .

Theorem A.

There is an $\omega $ -standard countable nonstandard model $\mathcal {M}$ of $\mathrm {ZF}^-+\mathrm {WO}$ that carries no initial self-embedding $j:\mathcal {M} \longrightarrow \mathcal {M}$ other than the identity embedding.

Theorem B.

Every countable $\omega $ -nonstandard model $\mathcal {M}$ of $\ \mathrm {ZF}$ is isomorphic to a transitive submodel of the hereditarily countable sets of its own constructible universe $L^{\mathcal {M}}$ .

Theorem C.

The following three conditions are equivalent for a countable nonstandard model $\mathcal {M}$ of $\mathrm {ZF}^{-}+\mathrm {WO}+\forall \alpha \ \Pi ^1_\infty \text{-}\mathrm {DC}_\alpha $ .

  1. (I) There is a cardinal in $\mathcal {M}$ that is a strict upper bound for the cardinality of each member of $\mathrm {WF}(\mathcal {M})$ .

  2. (II) $\mathrm {WF}(\mathcal {M})$ satisfies the powerset axiom.

  3. (III) For all $n \in \omega $ and for all $b \in M$ , there exists a proper initial self-embedding $j: \mathcal {M} \longrightarrow \mathcal {M}$ such that $b \in \mathrm {rng}(j)$ and $j[\mathcal {M}] \prec _n \mathcal {M}$ .

Keywords

self-embeddinginitial embeddingnonstandardmodel of set theory

MSC classification

Secondary: 03E99: None of the above, but in this section 03H99: None of the above, but in this section
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 86 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 1584 - 1611
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