Some notes on plump ordinals
Logic
2026-02-02 v1
Abstract
In this exposition, we attempt to formalise a treatment of Paul Taylor's notion of plump ordinals in weak intuitionistic axiomatic set theories such as IKP. We will explore basic properties of plump ordinals, especially in relation to G\"odel's constructible universe and incomparable codings. As a quick application, we explain at the end how plump ordinals can be used to build a Heyting-valued model from a classical such that for some arbitrary, fixed we have .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.23070,
title = {Some notes on plump ordinals},
author = {Shuwei Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.23070},
year = {2026}
}