Shinji KONO

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Constructing ZF Set Theory in Agda

Shinji KONO (kono@ie.u-ryukyu.ac.jp), University of the Ryukyus

ZF in Agda

code github

zf axiom of ZF

zfc axiom of choice

NSet Naive Set Theory

Ordinals axiom of Ordinals

OD a model of ZF based on Ordinal Definable Set with assumptions

ODC Law of exclude middle from axiom of choice assumptions

LEMC choice with assumption of the Law of exclude middle

BAlgebra Boolean algebra on OD (not yet done)

zorn Zorn lemma

Topology Topology

Tychonoff

VL V and L

cardinal Cardinals

filter Filter

filter-util Projection of Filter

generic-filter Generic Filter

maximum-filter Maximum filter by Zorn lemma

ordinal countable model of Ordinals

ZProduct

OrdUtil

PFOD

Ordinal Definable Set

It is a predicate has an Ordinal argument.

In Agda, OD is defined as follows.

    record OD : Set (suc n ) where
      field
        def : (x : Ordinal  ) → Set n

This is not a ZF Set, because it can contain entire Ordinals.

HOD : Hereditarily Ordinal Definable

What we need is a bounded OD, the containment is limited by an ordinal.

    record HOD : Set (suc n) where
      field
        od : OD
        odmax : Ordinal
        <odmax : {y : Ordinal} → def od y → y o< odmax

In classical Set Theory, HOD stands for Hereditarily Ordinal Definable, which means

     HOD = { x | TC x ⊆ OD }

TC x is all transitive closure of x, that is elements of x and following all elements of them are all OD. But what is x? In this case, x is an Set which we don’t have yet. In our case, HOD is a bounded OD.

1 to 1 mapping between an HOD and an Ordinal

HOD is a predicate on Ordinals and the solution is bounded by some ordinal. If we have a mapping

  od→ord : HOD  → Ordinal 
  ord→od : Ordinal  → HOD  
  oiso   :  {x : HOD }      → ord→od ( od→ord x ) ≡ x
  diso   :  {x : Ordinal } → od→ord ( ord→od x ) ≡ x

we can check an HOD is an element of the OD using def.

A ∋ x can be define as follows.

    _∋_ : ( A x : HOD  ) → Set n
    _∋_  A x  = def (od A) ( od→ord x )

In ψ : Ordinal → Set, if A is a record { od = { def = λ x → ψ x } …} , then

A ∋ x = def (od A) ( od→ord x ) = ψ (od→ord x)

They say the existing of the mappings can be proved in Classical Set Theory, but we simply assumes these non constructively.