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or (contrariwise) that $NGB$ + "There exists a Reinhardt cardinal" is consistent?

The question is partially in the title. $NGB$ is used for the reasons stated in the Hamkins, Kirmayer, and Perlmutter paper, "Generalizations of the Kunen inconsistency", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 163 (2012) pp. 1873-1876 (Section 1, "A few metamathematical preliminaries").

In order that this question should not be deemed overbroad, answers must be limited in scope to specific mathematical difficulties (eg. the Erdos-Hajnal theorem used in in proving the Kunen inconsistency in $NGBC$ or $NBC$ + $Choice$ has no known proof in $NGB$ or is known not to be provable without choice--however, those who would say that the Erdos-Hajnal theorem cannot be proven without choice must show how this fact allows for a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V$ $\rightarrow$ $V$ and the existence of the requisite critical point $\kappa$ in $NGB$). Those who are so inclined might make mention of Rupert McCallum's recent attempt in showing that "the existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V_{\lambda + 2}$ $\rightarrow$ $V_{\lambda + 2}$ for some ordinal $\lambda$...is not consistent with $ZF$" (quote from McCallum's withdrawn short preprint, The Choiceless Cardinals are Inconsistent, arXiv:1712.09768, which is discussed on Joel David Hamlin's blog — I would be especially interested in getting a nice explanation (i.e. analysis) of the gap in this argument and the relavance of the Laver paper which Gabriel Goldberg directed him to).

Though at first glance the answers to these questions might seem "primarily opinion-based", the mathoverflow community should realize the value of informed opinion and (yes) informed speculation regarding this topic, and use this question as an opportunity to provide these 'clues' (think of the proof of the 4-color theorem) to both the mathoverflow community and the mathematical community as a whole.

or (contrariwise) that $NGB$ + "There exists a Reinhardt cardinal" is consistent?

The question is partially in the title. $NGB$ is used for the reasons stated in the Hamkins, Kirmayer, and Perlmutter paper, "Generalizations of the Kunen inconsistency", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 163 (2012) pp. 1873-1876 (Section 1, "A few metamathematical preliminaries").

In order that this question should not be deemed overbroad, answers must be limited in scope to specific mathematical difficulties (eg. the Erdos-Hajnal theorem used in in proving the Kunen inconsistency in $NGBC$ or $NBC$ + $Choice$ has no known proof in $NGB$ or is known not to be provable without choice--however, those who would say that the Erdos-Hajnal theorem cannot be proven without choice must show how this fact allows for a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V$ $\rightarrow$ $V$ and the existence of the requisite critical point $\kappa$ in $NGB$). Those who are so inclined might make mention of Rupert McCallum's recent attempt in showing that "the existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V_{\lambda + 2}$ $\rightarrow$ $V_{\lambda + 2}$ for some ordinal $\lambda$...is not consistent with $ZF$" (quote from McCallum's withdrawn short preprint, The Choiceless Cardinals are Inconsistent, arXiv:1712.09768, which is discussed on Joel David Hamlin's blog — I would be especially interested in getting a nice explanation of the gap in this argument and the Laver paper which Gabriel Goldberg directed him to).

Though at first glance the answers to these questions might seem "primarily opinion-based", the mathoverflow community should realize the value of informed opinion and (yes) informed speculation regarding this topic, and use this question as an opportunity to provide these 'clues' (think of the proof of the 4-color theorem) to both the mathoverflow community and the mathematical community as a whole.

or (contrariwise) that $NGB$ + "There exists a Reinhardt cardinal" is consistent?

The question is partially in the title. $NGB$ is used for the reasons stated in the Hamkins, Kirmayer, and Perlmutter paper, "Generalizations of the Kunen inconsistency", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 163 (2012) pp. 1873-1876 (Section 1, "A few metamathematical preliminaries").

In order that this question should not be deemed overbroad, answers must be limited in scope to specific mathematical difficulties (eg. the Erdos-Hajnal theorem used in in proving the Kunen inconsistency in $NGBC$ or $NBC$ + $Choice$ has no known proof in $NGB$ or is known not to be provable without choice--however, those who would say that the Erdos-Hajnal theorem cannot be proven without choice must show how this fact allows for a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V$ $\rightarrow$ $V$ and the existence of the requisite critical point $\kappa$ in $NGB$). Those who are so inclined might make mention of Rupert McCallum's recent attempt in showing that "the existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V_{\lambda + 2}$ $\rightarrow$ $V_{\lambda + 2}$ for some ordinal $\lambda$...is not consistent with $ZF$" (quote from McCallum's withdrawn short preprint, The Choiceless Cardinals are Inconsistent, arXiv:1712.09768, which is discussed on Joel David Hamlin's blog — I would be especially interested in getting a nice explanation (i.e. analysis) of the gap in this argument and the relavance of the Laver paper which Gabriel Goldberg directed him to).

Though at first glance the answers to these questions might seem "primarily opinion-based", the mathoverflow community should realize the value of informed opinion and (yes) informed speculation regarding this topic, and use this question as an opportunity to provide these 'clues' (think of the proof of the 4-color theorem) to both the mathoverflow community and the mathematical community as a whole.

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or (contrariwise) that $NGB$ + "There exists a Reinhardt cardinal" is consistent?

The question is partially in the title. $NGB$ is used for the reasons stated in the Hamkins, Kirmayer, and Perlmutter paper, "Generalizations of the Kunen inconsistency", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 163 (2012) pp. 1873-1876 (Section 1, "A few metamathematical preliminaries").

In order that this question should not be deemed overbroad, answers must be limited in scope to specific mathematical difficulties (eg. the Erdos-Hajnal theorem used in in proving the Kunen inconsistency in $NGBC$ or $NBC$ + $Choice$ has no known proof in $NGB$ or is known not to be provable without choice--however, those who would say that the Erdos-Hajnal theorem cannot be proven without choice must show how this fact allows for a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V$ $\rightarrow$ $V$ and the existence of the requisite critical point $\kappa$ in $NGB$). Those who are so inclined might make mention of Rupert Mc'Callum'sMcCallum's recent attempt in showing that "the existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V_{\lambda + 2}$ $\rightarrow$ $V_{\lambda + 2}$ for some ordinal $\lambda$...is not consistent with $ZF$" (this quotequote from hisMcCallum's withdrawn short paperpreprint, "The Choiceless Cardinals are Inconsistent" found on Joel David Hamkins' blog "mathematics and philosophy of the infinite" posted on December 31The Choiceless Cardinals are Inconsistent, 2017--IarXiv:1712.09768, which is discussed on Joel David Hamlin's blog — I would be especially interested in getting a nice explanation of the gap in histhis argument and the Laver paper which Gabriel Goldberg directed him to).

Though at first glance the answers to these questions might seem "primarily opinion-based", the mathoverflow community should realize the value of informed opinion and (yes) informed speculation regarding this topic, and use this question as an opportunity to provide these 'clues' (think of the proof of the 4-color theorem) to both the mathoverflow community and the mathematical community as a whole.

or (contrariwise) that $NGB$ + "There exists a Reinhardt cardinal" is consistent?

The question is partially in the title. $NGB$ is used for the reasons stated in the Hamkins, Kirmayer, and Perlmutter paper, "Generalizations of the Kunen inconsistency", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 163 (2012) pp. 1873-1876 (Section 1, "A few metamathematical preliminaries").

In order that this question should not be deemed overbroad, answers must be limited in scope to specific mathematical difficulties (eg. the Erdos-Hajnal theorem used in in proving the Kunen inconsistency in $NGBC$ or $NBC$ + $Choice$ has no known proof in $NGB$ or is known not to be provable without choice--however, those who would say that the Erdos-Hajnal theorem cannot be proven without choice must show how this fact allows for a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V$ $\rightarrow$ $V$ and the existence of the requisite critical point $\kappa$ in $NGB$). Those who are so inclined might make mention of Rupert Mc'Callum's recent attempt in showing that "the existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V_{\lambda + 2}$ $\rightarrow$ $V_{\lambda + 2}$ for some ordinal $\lambda$...is not consistent with $ZF$" (this quote from his short paper, "The Choiceless Cardinals are Inconsistent" found on Joel David Hamkins' blog "mathematics and philosophy of the infinite" posted on December 31, 2017--I would be especially interested in getting a nice explanation of the gap in his argument and the Laver paper which Gabriel Goldberg directed him to).

Though at first glance the answers to these questions might seem "primarily opinion-based", the mathoverflow community should realize the value of informed opinion and (yes) informed speculation regarding this topic, and use this question as an opportunity to provide these 'clues' (think of the proof of the 4-color theorem) to both the mathoverflow community and the mathematical community as a whole.

or (contrariwise) that $NGB$ + "There exists a Reinhardt cardinal" is consistent?

The question is partially in the title. $NGB$ is used for the reasons stated in the Hamkins, Kirmayer, and Perlmutter paper, "Generalizations of the Kunen inconsistency", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 163 (2012) pp. 1873-1876 (Section 1, "A few metamathematical preliminaries").

In order that this question should not be deemed overbroad, answers must be limited in scope to specific mathematical difficulties (eg. the Erdos-Hajnal theorem used in in proving the Kunen inconsistency in $NGBC$ or $NBC$ + $Choice$ has no known proof in $NGB$ or is known not to be provable without choice--however, those who would say that the Erdos-Hajnal theorem cannot be proven without choice must show how this fact allows for a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V$ $\rightarrow$ $V$ and the existence of the requisite critical point $\kappa$ in $NGB$). Those who are so inclined might make mention of Rupert McCallum's recent attempt in showing that "the existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V_{\lambda + 2}$ $\rightarrow$ $V_{\lambda + 2}$ for some ordinal $\lambda$...is not consistent with $ZF$" (quote from McCallum's withdrawn short preprint, The Choiceless Cardinals are Inconsistent, arXiv:1712.09768, which is discussed on Joel David Hamlin's blog — I would be especially interested in getting a nice explanation of the gap in this argument and the Laver paper which Gabriel Goldberg directed him to).

Though at first glance the answers to these questions might seem "primarily opinion-based", the mathoverflow community should realize the value of informed opinion and (yes) informed speculation regarding this topic, and use this question as an opportunity to provide these 'clues' (think of the proof of the 4-color theorem) to both the mathoverflow community and the mathematical community as a whole.

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What are the difficulties involved in proving that the Kunen inconsistency holds in $NGB$

or (contrariwise) that $NGB$ + "There exists a Reinhardt cardinal" is consistent?

The question is partially in the title. $NGB$ is used for the reasons stated in the Hamkins, Kirmayer, and Perlmutter paper, "Generalizations of the Kunen inconsistency", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 163 (2012) pp. 1873-1876 (Section 1, "A few metamathematical preliminaries").

In order that this question should not be deemed overbroad, answers must be limited in scope to specific mathematical difficulties (eg. the Erdos-Hajnal theorem used in in proving the Kunen inconsistency in $NGBC$ or $NBC$ + $Choice$ has no known proof in $NGB$ or is known not to be provable without choice--however, those who would say that the Erdos-Hajnal theorem cannot be proven without choice must show how this fact allows for a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V$ $\rightarrow$ $V$ and the existence of the requisite critical point $\kappa$ in $NGB$). Those who are so inclined might make mention of Rupert Mc'Callum's recent attempt in showing that "the existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding $j$: $V_{\lambda + 2}$ $\rightarrow$ $V_{\lambda + 2}$ for some ordinal $\lambda$...is not consistent with $ZF$" (this quote from his short paper, "The Choiceless Cardinals are Inconsistent" found on Joel David Hamkins' blog "mathematics and philosophy of the infinite" posted on December 31, 2017--I would be especially interested in getting a nice explanation of the gap in his argument and the Laver paper which Gabriel Goldberg directed him to).

Though at first glance the answers to these questions might seem "primarily opinion-based", the mathoverflow community should realize the value of informed opinion and (yes) informed speculation regarding this topic, and use this question as an opportunity to provide these 'clues' (think of the proof of the 4-color theorem) to both the mathoverflow community and the mathematical community as a whole.