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A new axiom is proposed, the Ground Axiom, asserting that the universe is not a nontrivial set-forcing extension of any inner model. The Ground Axiom is first-order expressible, and any model of ZFC has a class-forcing extension which…

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We introduce a family of comparative plausibility logics over neighbourhood models, generalising Lewis' comparative plausibility operator over sphere models. We provide axiom systems for the logics, and prove their soundness and…

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We show that for $\Pi_2$-properties of second or third order arithmetic as formalized in appropriate natural signatures the apparently weaker notion of forcibility overlaps with the standard notion of consistency (assuming large cardinal…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Matteo Viale

Isabelle is a generic theorem prover, designed for interactive reasoning in a variety of formal theories. At present it provides useful proof procedures for Constructive Type Theory, various first-order logics, Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory,…

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Automated deduction seeks to enable machines to reason with mathematical precision and logical completeness. Classical resolution-based systems, such as Prover9, E, and Vampire, rely on binary inference, which inherently limits multi-clause…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yang Xu , Xingxing He , Shuwei Chen , Jun Liu , Xiaomei Zhong

In this article, after recalling and discussing the conventional extremality, local extremality, stationarity and approximate stationarity properties of collections of sets and the corresponding (extended) extremal principle, we focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Hoa T. Bui , Alexander Y. Kruger

The Isabelle Archive of Formal Proofs has grown to a significant size in the past years. It makes up for an impressive body of research, which enables a number of statistical approaches to various aspects in theorem proving, and has not yet…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Fabian Huch

We describe a proof of the Central Limit Theorem that has been formally verified in the Isabelle proof assistant. Our formalization builds upon and extends Isabelle's libraries for analysis and measure-theoretic probability. The proof of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Jeremy Avigad , Johannes Hölzl , Luke Serafin

The \emph{Separation Lemma} is a simple yet powerful tool, akin to the well-known \emph{Isolation Lemma}, that guarantees the uniqueness of certain set sums. Bandopadhyay et al.\ introduced this lemma to establish lower bounds for the \ALP…

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This paper builds model-theoretic tools to detect changes in complexity among the simple theories. We develop a generalization of dividing, called shearing, which depends on a so-called context c. This leads to defining c-superstability, a…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-07-06 M. Malliaris , S. Shelah

The method of exhaustion is generalized to a simple formula that can be used to integrate functions under very general conditions, provided that the integral exists. Both a geometric proof (following the usual procedure for the method of…

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In this article we present a technique for selecting models of set theory that are complete in a model-theoretic sense. Specifically, we will apply Robinson infinite forcing to the collections of models of ZFC obtained by Cohen forcing.…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Giorgio Venturi

The foundations of forcing theory are reworked to streamline the presentation and to show how the most basic results are applicable in very general contexts.

Logic · Mathematics 2007-12-13 Peter M. Johnson

We give a brief survey on the interplay between forcing axioms and various other non-constructive principles widely used in many fields of abstract mathematics, such as the axiom of choice and Baire's category theorem. First of all we…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Matteo Viale

A new axiom is proposed, the Ground Axiom, asserting that the universe is not a nontrivial set forcing extension of any inner model. The Ground Axiom is first-order expressible, and any model of ZFC has a class forcing extension which…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonas Reitz

Generalization is at the core of machine learning models. However, the definition of generalization is not entirely clear. We employ set theory to introduce the concepts of algorithms, hypotheses, and dataset generalization. We analyze the…

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Refinement transforms an abstract system model into a concrete, executable program, such that properties established for the abstract model carry over to the concrete implementation. Refinement has been used successfully in the development…

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As systems trend toward superintelligence, a natural modeling premise is that agents can self-improve along every facet of their own design. We formalize this with a five-axis decomposition and a decision layer, separating incentives from…

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