Karagila, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-1289-0904 (2025) APPROACHING A BRISTOL MODEL. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. ISSN: 1079-8986
Abstract
The Bristol model is an inner model of L[c], where c is a Cohen real, which is not constructible from a set. The idea was developed in 2011 in a workshop taking place in Bristol, but was only written in detail by the author in [8]. This article is a guide for those who want to get a broader view of the construction. We try to provide more intuition that might serve as a jumping board for those interested in this construction and in odd models of ZF. We also correct a few minor issues in the original paper, as well as prove new results. For example, the Boolean Prime Ideal theorem fails in the Bristol model, as some sets cannot be linearly ordered, and the ground model is always definable in its Bristol extensions. In addition to this we include a discussion on Kinna–Wagner Principles, which we think may play an important role in understanding the generic multiverse in ZF.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2025. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | axiom of choice; symmetric extensions; iterations of symmetric extensions; Bristol model; generic multiverse; symmetric multiverse; Kinna–Wagner Principles |
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| Institution: | The University of Leeds |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mathematics (Leeds) |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2025 13:55 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2026 14:36 |
| Status: | Published online |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Identification Number: | 10.1017/bsl.2025.10126 |
| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:233616 |
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