Reflection in second-order set theory with abundant urelements bi-interprets a supercompact cardinal
Abstract
After reviewing various natural bi-interpretations in urelement set theory, including second-order set theories with urelements, we explore the strength of second-order reflection in these contexts. Ultimately, we prove, second-order reflection with the abundant atom axiom is bi-interpretable and hence also equiconsistent with the existence of a supercompact cardinal. The proof relies on a reflection characterization of supercompactness, namely, a cardinal is supercompact if and only if every sentence true in a structure (of any size) containing in a language of size less than is also true in a substructure of size less than with .
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@article{arxiv.2204.09766,
title = {Reflection in second-order set theory with abundant urelements bi-interprets a supercompact cardinal},
author = {Joel David Hamkins and Bokai Yao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.09766},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
36 pages, 6 figures. Commentary can be made on the first author's blog at http://jdh.hamkins.org/second-order-reflection-with-abundant-urelements. V2 contains several refinements, improvements to exposition, and additional citations