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Forcing as a Local Method of Accessing Small Extensions

Logic 2025-01-03 v2

Abstract

Fix a set-theoretic universe VV. We look at small extensions of VV as generalised degrees of computability over VV. We also formalise and investigate the complexity of certain methods one can use to define, in VV, subclasses of degrees over VV. Finally, we give a nice characterisation of the complexity of forcing within this framework.

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@article{arxiv.2409.03441,
  title  = {Forcing as a Local Method of Accessing Small Extensions},
  author = {Desmond Lau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.03441},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

37 pages, 2 figures. Figure 2 is added to provide a better intuition of our main reducibility relation on local method definitions. Section 4 recapitulates some definitions and theorems from arXiv:2402.01213. Certain short proofs of these theorems are replicated for greater self-containment of the article

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