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- From: solovay@math.berkeley.edu (Robert M. Solovay)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: ZFC+~Con(ZFC)
- Date: 27 Aug 1992 21:06:11 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
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- >>In article <1992Aug20.171630.18667@ariel.ec.usf.edu> Gregory McColm,
- >>mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. writes:
- >>>The standard (ie, wellfounded) models all satisfy Con(ZFC)
- >>
- >>Can someone clarify for me the term "standard model"? Is this a concept
- >>with a formal definition, or is a "standard model" of a theory, simply a
- >>model which satisfies the intuitions which inspired the axioms of the
- >>theory?
- >>
- >>
- >
- > I do not know what all "standard" might mean, but in a lot of
- >contexts including this one it means "not non-standard" where "non-
- >standard" is used as in "non-standard analysis". In short, a model is
- >"standard" in this sense if all the sets it takes to be finite are
- >actually finite.
- >
-
- The usual terminology in set-theory is as follows. A model is
- standard if it is a transitive set (i.e. every member of it is a
- subset of it) and it's epsilon relation is just the restriction of the
- usual epsilon relation.
-
- By the Mostowski collapse theorem, a model of ZFC is
- isomorphic to a standard model iff its ordinals are well-ordered.
-
- A model of ZFC is "correct for finiteness" iff it has no
- non-standard integers. Such models are precisely those which are
- isomorphic to models whose integers are literally the usual integers.
- Models of this latter type are known as omega models.
-
- Every standard model of ZFC is an omega model. If there is an
- inaccessible cardinal, then
-
- (a) there is a countable standard model of ZFC.
-
- (b) there is an omega model of ZFC whose ordinals are not [externally]
- well-ordered.
-
- I haven't bothered to track down references for this (it's all
- standard stuff) but I suspect this material is somewhere in Kunen or
- Jech's opuses on set-theory.
-