Zulip Chat Archive
Stream: Is there code for X?
Topic: ZFC with Grothendieck universes
Chris Henson (Feb 21 2026 at 11:37):
In Definitional Proof Irrelevance Made Accessible, there is a model interpreting their type theory into ZFC with Grothendieck universes, similar to #leantt. The Rocq formalization includes this, but is done axiomatically.
I'd like to eventually have formalizations of this nature in CSLib. I am working on the type theory side, but does any of the set theory side (universes, accessibility in ZFC, etc.) exist anywhere already?
Dexin Zhang (Feb 22 2026 at 14:10):
I believe docs#ZFSet is already a model of ZFC. There is no formalization of Grothendieck universes in Mathlib yet, but they are equivalent to when is an inaccessible cardinal, where you can use docs#ZFSet.vonNeumann and docs#Cardinal.IsInaccessible
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