How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
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Absoluteness, idempotence and minimality of L
Statement
In ZF, if is a transitive model of ZF and , then . If is a definable transitive class inner model containing every ordinal, then . In particular , and satisfies .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ZF. External induction compares internal histories using Def absoluteness, not Power Set absoluteness. Minimality and idempotence are derived only after the previously authored ZF axioms license N=L.
Absoluteness of the definable power-set operation: For a set A in a transitive ZF model, the internal Def set equals the external Def set.
Elementary ZF axioms inside L: The six elementary ZF axioms already hold in L.
Separation in the constructible universe: Every fixed instance of Separation holds in L.
Internal Power Set in L: Internal Power Set holds in L.
Replacement in L: Every Replacement instance holds in L.
Proof
Internal ZF gives N its hierarchy history on each ordinal interval in N. External induction identifies its values: at zero both are empty; if the value at is the actual , F1 identifies its internal Def with . At a limit , transitivity makes the internal history have every actual index , and its internal union has exactly the union of their actual values. Thus for every ordinal of N.
If N contains all ordinals, every actual L level is therefore in N. Transitivity gives , and the internal existential definition of constructibility ranges over precisely all actual ordinals, so its union is exactly L. For a set model the same argument stops at its ordinal height; no higher level is asserted to belong to N.
The six axioms in F2, Separation in F3, internal Power Set in F4, and Replacement in F5 establish all of ZF in L. Earlier level properties give transitivity and all ordinals. Thus L itself meets the hypotheses of step 2.1, which now yields . Every element of L is internally constructible, exactly the relativization of . This application occurs only after ZF in L has been established.
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Sources
- Geschke Theorem 5.8 and following paragraph p16; Marks Lemma 20.7 and Corollary 20.8 pp87–88 (standard reference, not scraped)