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CorollaryStatement: AI-adaptedProof: AI-adaptedPipeline-generatedjudge pass (gpt-5.6-terra)audited 2026-09-13
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Positive relative consistency of CH and GCH

Statement

Con(ZF) implies Con(ZFC+GCH) and Con(ZFC+CH); consequently Con(ZFC) implies both positive consistency statements.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The fixed effective presentations used by the preceding theorem; CH is the 0 instance of its selected GCH sentence.

[F1]

Formal consistency of ZFC plus GCH relative to ZF proves in PA that Con(ZF) implies Con(ZFC+GCH).

Proof

1.1

There is a fixed finite ZFC+GCH proof of CH: instantiate GCH at the first infinite initial ordinal and expand the selected cardinal notation. Hence appending this proof and replacing uses of the CH axiom gives a primitive-recursive map from any ZFC+CH refutation to a ZFC+GCH refutation, and PA verifies the map by its finite line-prefix check. Therefore Con(ZFC+GCH) implies Con(ZFC+CH).

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2.1

Combining step 1.1 with F1 gives both implications from Con(ZF). Separately, the inclusion of every certified ZF axiom in ZFC gives an identity-on-lines primitive-recursive map from ZF refutations to ZFC refutations. Thus PA proves Con(ZFC)Con(ZF). Composing this with the two implications already proved gives both conclusions from Con(ZFC) as claimed.

F1step 1.1

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