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Timeline for Absoluteness of well-orderability

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Jul 12, 2023 at 8:03 vote accept Adam Epstein
Oct 20, 2022 at 14:19 comment added Julia Williams Ah that explains why this argument seemed so familiar to me!
Oct 19, 2022 at 16:17 comment added Noah Schweber Related: mathoverflow.net/questions/236041/…
Oct 19, 2022 at 14:54 answer added Julia Williams timeline score: 10
Jun 10, 2018 at 7:26 history edited Adam Epstein CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 7, 2018 at 20:12 comment added Adam Epstein And very much like Boffa's example discussed here mathoverflow.net/questions/85941/…
Jun 7, 2018 at 19:35 comment added Philip Welch @StefanMesken: there is an r.e. linear ordering, $R$, of $\omega$, which is thus in $M= L_{\omega_1^{ck}}$, but there are no infinite descending chains through $R$ in $M$. (The wellordered part of $R$ has order type ${\omega_1^{ck}}$ but there is an illfounded part beyond it.). This is exactly as Asaf puts it: we move beyond $M$ and can then find a set which witnesses the illfoundedness of $R$. (The existence of such an $R$: R.O. Gandy: A proof of Mostowski's Conjecture (1960).)
Jun 7, 2018 at 15:02 comment added Adam Epstein @AsafKaragila Thank you so much! This came to mind several months ago when I was mentally verifying some assertion in whatever I was reading at the time (I think a paper of Joel's). I felt I'd really learned something.
Jun 7, 2018 at 14:38 comment added Asaf Karagila I like this question. On first sight, it seems like the answer is "obviously yeah", but then you realize that moving to a larger model, one might have added a new set which witnesses the ill-foundedness. Nice!
Jun 7, 2018 at 12:52 comment added Stefan Mesken @PhilipWelch Could you elaborate on the illfounded ordering of $L_{\omega_1^{ck}}$? I'm not sure where it comes from.
Jun 7, 2018 at 9:43 comment added Philip Welch Upwards absoluteness of WO's fails for transitive models of KP (so Pairing, Union, Inf., Found, with Delta_1-Sep. and Sigma_1-Rep.). This is witnessed by an illfounded ordering in the least transitive KP model: L_{omega_1}^{ck}. But if Sigma_1 Rep. is enhanced to Sigma_2-Rep, then the transitive models here are "beta-models": \Pi^1_1 statements, including thus Wellordering, are absolute between them and V.
Jun 7, 2018 at 8:30 history asked Adam Epstein CC BY-SA 4.0