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Fixed finite-fragment verification for the Solovay construction

Statement

For every externally fixed finite fragment Δ of the stated ZF+DC universal-regularity theory, including failure of Choice and any of the named exclusions proved on this page, T=ZFC+“there is an inaccessible cardinal” supplies a finite source fragment Γ and proves both that a suitable countable transitive Γ-model exists and that its Solovay construction is a set model of Δ. In particular T proves that a set model of Δ exists. The source fragment and proof may depend on Δ; no PA-verified uniform proof-code transformer is asserted.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: One externally fixed finite list Δ of target axioms and named consequences, including the actual formulas in its Separation and Replacement instances.

[F0]

The inaccessible Lévy-collapse setup for Solovay's construction gives the exact constructible forcing ground, inaccessible parameter, and Lévy collapse used by the construction.

[F2]

Montague–Lévy reflection for a finite formula family and Countable elementary submodels and their collapses: a fixed finite family can be reflected above a prescribed parameter and, under ambient Choice, reduced to a countable transitive set model retaining that parameter and the reflected sentences.

[F3]

Finite-fragment interpretation in L with GCH translates each fixed finite ZFC+GCH fragment needed in the constructible forcing ground. Preservation of the inaccessible when passing to L is proved directly below from the definition in F0; it is not part of F3's interface.

[F4]

The Axiom of Choice: ambient source Choice supplies the countable hull and the enumeration of dense subsets of a countable forcing model; it is not an axiom of the target model.

Proof

1.1

Expand the finitely many formulas in Δ and the particular proofs in F1 that establish them. Retain only the finitely many source axioms, forcing-recursion clauses, relativized-satisfaction formulas, Borel-code inductions, and closure instances that occur in those finite derivations. If κ is inaccessible in the ambient source, then it remains inaccessible in L: regularity is downward absolute, and an L-cofinal map or an L-injection κPL(λ) for λ<κ would be the same forbidden map or injection in the ambient universe. Apply F3 to the fixed ZFC+GCH part interpreted in L, adjoining the finitely used instances of this direct preservation proof. This produces one finite source family Γ, depending on Δ, together with a finite verification of the F0 construction over any transitive model of Γ containing an inaccessible cardinal.

F0F1F3Given
2.1

Work in ZFC+“there is an inaccessible cardinal” and choose such a κ. Apply finite reflection to the formulas of Γ together with the assertion that κ is inaccessible, taking a reflected stage above κ. Then take a countable elementary submodel containing κ and collapse it. The result is a countable transitive set model C of Γ in which the collapsed image κˉ is inaccessible. The setup in F0 identifies this as the exact parameter required by the retained construction. Only the fixed finite formulas are reflected; no model of the full source theory is claimed.

F0F1F2F4step 1.1
3.1

Enumerate in the ambient source universe the dense subsets, belonging to C, of the Lévy collapse computed in the constructible ground of C, and recursively build a generic filter. Execute inside the resulting set extension the fixed construction retained at step 1.1. Because C and its extension are sets, the retained F1 derivations from step 1.1 show that the hereditary definability predicate cuts out a set structure satisfying every sentence in Δ. Thus T proves both required assertions: the countable transitive source model C exists, and the displayed construction converts it into a set model of Δ.

F1F3F4step 1.1step 2.1
4.1

The argument is indexed externally by the fixed finite Δ. An empty Δ is handled by any nonempty reflected structure. Nothing selects all such proofs inside arithmetic, constructs a model of full ZFC from consistency, or establishes a primitive-recursive all-proof transformer.

step 2.1step 3.1

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