Tarski–Grothendieck set theory
Tarski–Grothendieck set theory (TG, named after mathematicians
The
Axioms
Tarski–Grothendieck set theory starts with conventional Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory and then adds “Tarski's axiom”. We will use the axioms, definitions, and notation of Mizar to describe it. Mizar's basic objects and processes are fully formal; they are described informally below. First, let us assume that:
- Given any set , the singleton exists.
- Given any two sets, their unordered and ordered pairs exist.
- Given any set of sets, its union exists.
TG includes the following axioms, which are conventional because they are also part of
- Set axiom: Quantified variables range over sets alone; everything is a set (the same ZFC).
- Axiom of extensionality: Two sets are identical if they have the same members.
- Axiom of regularity: No set is a member of itself, and circular chains of membership are impossible.
- Axiom schema of replacement: Let the domain of the class function be the set . Then the range of (the values of for all members of ) is also a set.
It is Tarski's axiom that distinguishes TG from other axiomatic set theories. Tarski's axiom also implies the axioms of
- Tarski's axiom (adapted from Tarski 1939[5]). For every set , there exists a set whose members include:
- itself;
- Every element of every member of ;
- Every subset of every member of ;
- The power set of every member of ;
- Every subset of of cardinality less than that of .
More formally:
where “” denotes the power class of x and “” denotes equinumerosity. What Tarski's axiom states (in the vernacular) is that for each set there is a Grothendieck universe it belongs to.
That looks much like a “universal set” for – it not only has as members the powerset of , and all subsets of , it also has the powerset of that powerset and so on – its members are closed under the operations of taking powerset or taking a subset. It's like a “universal set” except that of course it is not a member of itself and is not a set of all sets. That's the guaranteed Grothendieck universe it belongs to. And then any such is itself a member of an even larger “almost universal set” and so on. It's one of the strong cardinality axioms guaranteeing vastly more sets than one normally assumes to exist.
Implementation in the Mizar system
The Mizar language, underlying the implementation of TG and providing its logical syntax, is typed and the types are assumed to be non-empty. Hence, the theory is implicitly taken to be non-empty. The existence axioms, e.g. the existence of the unordered pair, is also implemented indirectly by the definition of term constructors.
The system includes equality, the membership predicate and the following standard definitions:
- Singleton: A set with one member;
- Unordered pair: A set with two distinct members. ;
- Ordered pair: The set ;
- Subset: A set all of whose members are members of another given set;
- The union of a set of sets : The set of all members of any member of .
Implementation in Metamath
The Metamath system supports arbitrary higher-order logics, but it is typically used with the "set.mm" definitions of axioms. The ax-groth axiom adds Tarski's axiom, which in Metamath is defined as follows:
⊢ ∃y(x ∈ y ∧ ∀z ∈ y (∀w(w ⊆ z → w ∈ y) ∧ ∃w ∈ y ∀v(v ⊆ z → v ∈ w)) ∧ ∀z(z ⊆ y → (z ≈ y ∨ z ∈ y)))
See also
Notes
- ^ Tarski (1938)
- ^ "WELLORD2: Zermelo Theorem and Axiom of Choice. The correspondence of well ordering relations and ordinal numbers".
- ^ Robert Solovay, Re: AC and strongly inaccessible cardinals.
- ^ Metamath grothpw.
- ^ Tarski (1939)
References
- Andreas Blass, I.M. Dimitriou, and Benedikt Löwe (2007) "Inaccessible Cardinals without the Axiom of Choice," Fundamenta Mathematicae 194: 179-89.
- Alexandre Grothendieck; Jean-Louis Verdier (eds.). Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique du Bois Marie – 1963-64 – Théorie des topos et cohomologie étale des schémas – (SGA 4) – vol. 1 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 269) (in French). Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 185–217. Archived from the originalon 2003-08-26.
- Patrick Suppes (1960) Axiomatic Set Theory. Van Nostrand. Dover reprint, 1972.
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External links
- Trybulec, Andrzej, 1989, "Tarski–Grothendieck Set Theory", Journal of Formalized Mathematics.
- Metamath: "Proof Explorer Home Page." Scroll down to "Grothendieck's Axiom."
- PlanetMath: "Tarski's Axiom"