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Universality properties of forcing

Logic 2025-03-07 v2

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate forcing as a tool to construct universal models. In particular, we look at theories of initial segments of the universe and show that any model of a sufficiently rich fragment of those theories can be embedded into a model constructed by forcing. Our results rely on the model-theoretic properties of good ultrafilters, for which we provide a new existence proof on non-necessarily complete Boolean algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2310.11691,
  title  = {Universality properties of forcing},
  author = {Francesco Parente and Matteo Viale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11691},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages

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