Reduced products of infinite forcing systems.
We give an equivalent, but simpler formulation of the axiom SEP, which was introduced in [9] in order to capture some of the combinatorial behaviour of models of set theory obtained by adding Cohen reals to a model of CH. Our formulation shows that many of the consequences of the weak Freese-Nation property of 𝒫(ω) studied in [6] already follow from SEP. We show that it is consistent that SEP holds while 𝒫(ω) fails to have the (ℵ₁,ℵ ₀)-ideal property introduced in [2]. This answers a question...
McAloon showed that if 𝓐 is a nonstandard model of IΔ₀, then some initial segment of 𝓐 is a nonstandard model of PA. Sommer and D'Aquino characterized, in terms of the Wainer functions, the elements that can belong to such an initial segment. The characterization used work of Ketonen and Solovay, and Paris. Here we give conditions on a model 𝓐 of IΔ₀ guaranteeing that there is an n-elementary initial segment that is a nonstandard model of PA. We also characterize the elements that can be included....
An ω-tree-automatic structure is a relational structure whose domain and relations are accepted by Muller or Rabin tree automata. We investigate in this paper the isomorphism problem for ω-tree-automatic structures. We prove first that the isomorphism relation for ω-tree-automatic boolean algebras (respectively, partial orders, rings, commutative rings, non commutative rings, non commutative groups, nilpotent groups of class n ≥ 2) is not determined by the axiomatic system ZFC. Then we prove that...
In this note, we show that the model obtained by finite support iteration of a sequence of generic extensions of models of ZFC of length is sometimes the smallest common extension of this sequence and very often it is not.