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Inner mantles and iterated HOD

Logic 2019-09-06 v2

Abstract

We present a class forcing notion M(η)\mathbb M(\eta), uniformly definable for ordinals η\eta, which forces the ground model to be the η\eta-th inner mantle of the extension, in which the sequence of inner mantles has length at least η\eta. This answers a conjecture of Fuchs, Hamkins, and Reitz [FHR15] in the positive. We also show that M(η)\mathbb M(\eta) forces the ground model to be the η\eta-th iterated HOD of the extension, where the sequence of iterated HODs has length at least η\eta. We conclude by showing that the lengths of the sequences of inner mantles and of iterated HODs can be separated to be any two ordinals you please.

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@article{arxiv.1810.08702,
  title  = {Inner mantles and iterated HOD},
  author = {Jonas Reitz and Kameryn J Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.08702},
  year   = {2019}
}

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19 pages

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