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Godel's Constructible Universe in Infinitary Logics (A Possible Approach to HOD Problem)

Godel's constructible universe ($L$) is defined using definable power set operator in first order logic ($\mathcal{L}_{\omega ,\omega}$). One can produce such a universe in infinitary logics in the same way using corresponding notions of formulas and definability. Obviously $L$ becomes larger when the logic has more expression power.

For each cardinal $\kappa$ define $L_{\kappa}$ to be Godel's constructible universe in the infinitary logic $\mathcal{L}_{\kappa,\kappa}$ and $L_{\infty}$ is Godel's constructible universe in $\mathcal{L}_{\infty,\infty}$.

  1. Is $L_{\kappa}$ a model of $ZFC$ for each cardinal $\kappa$? What about $ZFC+GCH$?

  2. What is $L_{\infty}$?

  3. Is there a (possibly large) cardinal $\kappa$ such that $L_{\kappa}$ is Dodd-Jensen core model, $L[U]$, $HOD$, etc?

  4. What are the consistency strength of existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding from $\langle L_{\kappa},\in\rangle$ to itself in the sense of infinitary logic $\mathcal{L}_{\kappa,\kappa}$?

Note that by Prof. Hamkins's answer for $\mathcal{L}_{\infty}$ finally it reach Kunen's inconsistency but what about a given cardinal $\kappa$? Are all these consistency strengths for different cardinals bounded by some large cardinal axiom and there is a gape between consistency strength of existence of a non-trivial elementary embedding from $\langle L_{\infty},\in\rangle$ to itself and consistency strength of the existence of such elementary embeddings for $L_{\kappa}$s?

  1. If there is a cardinal $\kappa$ such that $L_{\kappa}=HOD$, is it possible to determine consistency strength of the existence of a non-trivial (first-order) elementary embedding from $\langle HOD,\in\rangle$ to itself by analyzing the growth speed of the consistency strength of existence of such embeddings for $\langle L_{\kappa}, \in\rangle$?

  2. What is $L_{\kappa}$ for strongly compact cardinal $\kappa$?

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