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View SchemaInconsistency of Reinhardt cardinals with $\mathsf{ZF}$
| Authors | Rupert McCallum |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.10231vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10231 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
A proof will be presented that the existence of a non-trivial $\Sigma_1$-elementary embedding $j: V_{\lambda+3} \prec V_{\lambda+3}$ is inconsistent with $\textsf{ZF}$. Sections 1 and 2 shall review various important contributions from the literature, notably including \cite{Goldberg2020}, \cite{Schlutzenberg2020}, and \cite{Woodin2010}, the latter reference being where the crucial forcing construction is presented. Section 3 shall introduce some new large cardinal properties, of consistency strength intermediate between $\mathsf{I_3}$ and $\mathsf{I_2}$, and greater than $\mathsf{I_1}$, respectively. The proof of the inconsistency with $\mathsf{ZF}$ of the existence of a non-trivial $\Sigma_1$-elementary embedding $j:V_{\lambda+3} \prec V_{\lambda+3}$ shall be given in Section 4. The claims of Sections 2 and 4 are provable in $\textsf{ZF}$; those of Section 3, with the exception of the last two theorems, in $\textsf{ZFC}$.
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"title": "Inconsistency of Reinhardt cardinals with $\\mathsf{ZF}$",
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