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LeanPool.InfinitaryLogic.Descriptive.WellOrderNonBorel

Non-Borelness of the countable well-order class (issue #33) #

The descriptive-set-theoretic payoff of Marker's boundedness theorem: the class WO of countable well-orders is not Borel as a subset of the logic space.

theorem wellOrderClass_not_measurableSet (lt : L.Relations 2) : ¬ MeasurableSet (wellOrderClass lt)

Were it Borel, López–Escobar (#10) would give a sentence φ with ModelsOf φ = WO — but only over coded structures, whose carrier is . The bridge from there to arbitrary models is the fragment-elementary substructure machinery (#13), applied to φ ⊓ infiniteAxiom so that finite models cannot escape:

Marker's Corollary 4.27 then bounds the order types of all models of φ ⊓ infiniteAxiom by a single countable ordinal, which exists_code_type_eq contradicts.

The endpoint #

The countable well-order class is not Borel (issue #33): no Borel set of codes consists exactly of the well-ordered ones.