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Fixed Boolean values come from initial collapse layers
Statement
Let , and let be the complete subalgebra of Boolean values fixed by . If , then
Here a condition and its restriction are identified with their canonical nonzero regular-open values. Consequently is exactly the complete subalgebra generated by conditions using only layers .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Feferman–Levy forcing, its regular-open completion, , and an -fixed .
The Feferman–Levy symmetric collapse system defines as the automorphisms acting identically on all layers below , and allows arbitrary coordinate permutations in every layer at least . Hereditarily symmetric names have bounded layer support fixes the use of this one bounded stabilizer for a name.
Choice-free regular open completion of forcing preorders gives the dense embedding of into and the Boolean order and compatibility correspondence.
Symmetry lemma for forcing automorphisms gives invariance of the ordinary forcing relation under automorphisms of . Independently, the explicit regular-open construction in F2 is functorial: for an automorphism of , the map is an automorphism of , because it preserves downward openness, closure, interior, complements, and arbitrary joins.
Proof
Fix and suppose . Density of the embedding in F2 gives with and .
For every layer appearing in , choose a finite permutation of its -coordinates which moves all upper-layer coordinates of away from the finitely many upper-layer coordinates of ; extend it by the identity elsewhere. The resulting lies in . Below layer , extends and is the identity; above it, the moved domain of is disjoint from the domain of . Thus and are compatible. This is a finite construction in finitely many represented layers.
Since is fixed by , the regular-open automorphism described in F3 sends to . A common extension of and would lie below both and , contradicting Boolean incompatibility. Hence .
Let be the displayed join. Step 2.1 gives . Conversely every satisfies , and density below the regular open gives . Therefore .
Every initial-layer condition is fixed by , so the complete subalgebra it generates is contained in . The equality in step 3.1 writes every member of as a join of such conditions, yielding the reverse inclusion and the final assertion.
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Sources
- Thomas Jech, The Axiom of Choice, Lemma 10.7 and equation (10.6), printed pp. 143–144 (standard reference, not scraped)