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Set Theory

Class at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
NLTM001

Syllabus

Ordinal and cardinal arithmetic. The axiom of regularity. The cummulative hierarchy of sets.

Well-founded relations and induction. Collapsing theorems. Transitive models. Constructible sets.

Consistence of the axiom of choice and the generalization continuum hypothesis.

Ultrapowers and elementary embeddings. Measurable and inaccessible cardinals.

Bulean-valued models, generic extensions. Independence of the continuum hypothesis.

Non-regular set theory with strong choice and with the axiom of superuniversality. Nonstandard methods.

Applications.

Annotation

Ordinal and cardinal numbers, well-founded relations, isomorphism theorem, reflection principle. Transitive models, constructible sets, ultrapowers, measurable cardinals, Scott's theorem.

Forcing and Boolean-value models, a consistency of negation of the continuum hypothesis. Nonstandard set theory, axiom of superuniversality, elementary embedding of the universe into a transitive class, standard, internal and external sets.