The Axiom of Determinacy, Forcing Axioms, and the Nonstationary Ideal

by W. Hugh Woodin

The starting point for this monograph is the previously unknown connection between the Continuum Hypothesis and the saturation of the non-stationary ideal on ω1; and the principle result of this monograph is the identification of a canonical model in which the Continuum Hypothesis is false. This is the first example of such a model and moreover the model can be characterized in terms of maximality principles concerning the universal-existential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110197022
• ISBN13: 9783110197020
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 858 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.0" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary