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The Lévy collapse localizes countable ordinal data

Statement

In V[G], κ=ω1; every real and every function f:ωOrd belongs to some V[Gξ], ξ<κ; and RV[Gξ] is countable in V[G].

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The Solovay collapse setup and a supplied V-generic G.

[F1]

The inaccessible Lévy-collapse setup for Solovay's construction: gives P, its initial complete suborders, and the ambient ZFC convention.

[F2]

Cardinal effects of collapse and Lévy-collapse forcing: gives the collapse of every infinite cardinal below κ and preservation of κ.

[F3]

Forcing theorem, Monotonicity, density, and decision for forcing, Forcing equivalence and Boolean completion, Transitivity and a valuation rank bound, and Forcing preserves ordinals supply the definable forcing relation, density closure, Boolean completion, the name-rank bound, and preservation of ordinals.

[F4]

Size and rank bounds below an inaccessible: gives Pξ<κ and the regularity of κ.

[F5]

The Axiom of Choice: ambient AC selects the deciding maximal antichain for each coordinate of a name.

Proof

1.1

By F2 every α<κ is countable after forcing, whereas the κ-chain condition preserves κ and its uncountability. Hence κ=ω1V[G].

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1.2

First justify the ordinal decisions. Fix a name γ˙ forced to be an ordinal and let ρ exceed its name rank. By the rank bound and ordinal preservation in F3, every possible value is some ground ordinal below ρ. In the Boolean completion, the join of the set of truth values γ˙=αˇ for α<ρ is 1: otherwise a nonzero remainder would force that γ˙ is an ordinal below ρ unequal to every such α, contradicting the forcing clauses and density closure. A maximal antichain refining these truth values therefore decides γ˙ as a check ordinal. This proves the needed ordinal-name decision lemma; binary decision density alone was not substituted for it.

F3F5
2.1

Apply step 1.2 to f˙(n) for each n. Ambient AC selects a sequence (An)n<ω of deciding maximal antichains. The κ-cc makes every An have size below κ. Each condition has finite support, so regularity in F4 bounds n<ωpAnsupp(p) below some ξ<κ. Every AnPξ, and replacing each coefficient by its restriction gives a Pξ-name whose Gξ-value is f˙G. A real is the special case of an ordinal-valued omega-sequence.

F1F3F4F5step 1.2
3.1

In V, the collection of nice Pξ-names for reals has cardinal below κ: each is coded by countably many antichains in the set Pξ, and inaccessibility supplies the required bound. The tail collapse makes that ground set countable. Evaluating an ambient enumeration of its codes gives a surjection from ω onto RV[Gξ] in V[G]. Empty names and the zero real are included; no uniform choice is made inside an inner model.

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