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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 VκV_\kappa when κ\kappa is an inaccessible cardinal, where you can use docs#ZFSet.vonNeumann and docs#Cardinal.IsInaccessible


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