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Formalization of Forcing in Isabelle/ZF

Logic in Computer Science 2020-04-21 v2 Logic

Abstract

We formalize the theory of forcing in the set theory framework of Isabelle/ZF. Under the assumption of the existence of a countable transitive model of ZFC, we construct a proper generic extension and show that the latter also satisfies ZFC. In doing so, we remodularized Paulson's ZF-Constructibility library.

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@article{arxiv.2001.09715,
  title  = {Formalization of Forcing in Isabelle/ZF},
  author = {Emmanuel Gunther and Miguel Pagano and Pedro Sánchez Terraf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.09715},
  year   = {2020}
}

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15 pages. Accepted at the 10th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2020). v2: Added expanded section on related work

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