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Timeline for Taller models of ZFC

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Jan 29, 2016 at 19:48 vote accept Mirco A. Mannucci
Jan 29, 2016 at 19:10 answer added Ali Enayat timeline score: 14
Jan 29, 2016 at 12:44 comment added Stefan Hoffelner @Mirco Consider the strictly increasing $\omega_1$-sequence of critical points of the iterated ultrapower maps, i.e let $\kappa_0$ be the critical point of $j_0: M \rightarrow Ult$, $\kappa_1$ the critical point of $j_1: Ult(M, U) \rightarrow Ult(Ult(M,U), U_1),... $ The $\kappa_i$'s will be elements of the direct limit.
Jan 29, 2016 at 11:58 comment added Mirco A. Mannucci @StefanHoffelner : are you sure that your omega_1 ultrapower has height strictly greater than the one of M?
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Jan 29, 2016 at 10:29 comment added Mirco A. Mannucci @VictoriaGitman absolutely! I will add it now in the question.
Jan 29, 2016 at 10:27 comment added Mirco A. Mannucci @CarlMummert here M is a transitive SET, which happens to be a model of ZFC
Jan 29, 2016 at 10:25 comment added Mirco A. Mannucci @EmilJeřábek I meant using just ZFC, no more, no less
Jan 29, 2016 at 1:02 comment added Victoria Gitman @Mirco: Maybe (2) should be modified to say that $M=V_{\eta_0}^N$. It seems this would capture better the notion of "making a model taller".
Jan 28, 2016 at 18:31 comment added Asaf Karagila @Carl: Yes, I'm just saying that the axiom "there is a proper class of $V_\alpha$'s which are models of ZFC" is weaker than the existence of an inaccessible. Of course there can be just one single worldly cardinal (cut the universe at the second worldly cardinal!). So all I'm saying is that you can get it from even milder assumptions. :-)
Jan 28, 2016 at 18:18 comment added Carl Mummert @Asaf Karagila: I think you are thinking about the consistency of the statement (you are saying it is consistent relative to the existence of one inaccessible), but I was thinking about the provability of the statement. Is it consistent with ZFC that the collection of wordly cardinals is nonempty and bounded? In my earlier comment, I was trying to suggest that the axiom would follow from very mild large cardinal assumptions.
Jan 28, 2016 at 18:14 comment added Asaf Karagila @Carl: Just one inaccessible cardinal is enough. Since an inaccessible cardinal is the limit of worldly cardinals (those that $V_\alpha$ is a model of ZFC), so if $\kappa$ is inaccessible $V_\kappa$ satisfies that "There is a proper class of $\alpha$'s such that $V_\alpha$ is a model of ZFC". You can probably even have something weaker like $\kappa$ is a worldly limit of worldly cardinals.
Jan 28, 2016 at 17:07 comment added Stefan Hoffelner Concerning your question 1 which is stated quite vaguely, maybe iterated ultrapowers would meet your requirements. If you assume a say countable model $M$ with an $M$-ultrafilter $U$ you can form the ultrapower $Ult(M,U)$ and continue. At limit stages you take the direct limit. Performing this $\omega_1$-many times and assuming that the final model is wellfounded you end up with an $\omega_1$ sized model.
Jan 28, 2016 at 16:26 comment added Carl Mummert In (2), are you referring to transitive set models (so that the question is interpreted within a single class model of ZFC, so to speak) or are you asking about class models (so that the question is about the relationship between different class models of ZFC)? In the former case, doesn't (2) follow from the axiom that every set is contained in a transitive set model of ZFC, which in turn follows just from the existence of arbitrarily large inaccessible cardinals?
Jan 28, 2016 at 15:06 comment added Emil Jeřábek In 1: “..without adding new axioms” – adding where? Can you clarify what does the sentence mean?
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