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PFA AND THE DEFINABILITY OF THE NONSTATIONARY IDEAL

Part of: Set theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2025

STEFAN HOFFELNER
Affiliation:
INSTITUT FÜR MATHEMATISCHE LOGIK UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER EINSTEINSTR. 62, MÜNSTER GERMANY E-mail: stefan.hoffelner@gmx.at E-mail: rds@uni-muenster.de
PAUL LARSON*
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO 45056
RALF SCHINDLER
Affiliation:
INSTITUT FÜR MATHEMATISCHE LOGIK UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER EINSTEINSTR. 62, MÜNSTER GERMANY E-mail: stefan.hoffelner@gmx.at E-mail: rds@uni-muenster.de
LIUZHEN WU
Affiliation:
INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS ACADEMY OF MATHEMATICS AND SYSTEMS SCIENCE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BEIJING 100190 CHINA and SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BEIJING 100049 CHINA E-mail: lzwu@math.ac.cn

Abstract

We produce, relative to a $\textsf {ZFC}$ model with a supercompact cardinal, a $\textsf {ZFC}$ model of the Proper Forcing Axiom in which the nonstationary ideal on $\omega _1$ is $\Pi _1$-definable in a parameter from $H_{\aleph _2}$.

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