Rather classless models.

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XMPA is a class if for all aM, {xX:x<a} is definable (coded) in M. M is rather classless if each class of M is definable.

Since every model of PA has a conservative elementary end extension, for each cardinal κ such that cf(κ)>0, there are κ-like rather classless models of PA. A model is κ-like is it is of cardinality κ and each of its proper initial segments is of smaller cardinality.

Kaufmann, assuming , proves that there are recursively saturated 1-like rather classless models. Later Shelah showed that can be eliminated from the proof. Nevertheless one can still ask, as Hodges did in 1985: Prove the existence of rather classless recursively saturated models of PA in cardinality 1 without assuming diamond at any stage of the proof.


References:

Kaufmann, Matt, A rather classless model. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (1977), no. 2, 330–333.

Hodges, Wilfrid, Building models by games. London Mathematical Society Student Texts, 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985