On the structure of classical realizability models of ZF

Abstract

The technique of "classical realizability" is an extension of the method of "forcing"; it permits to extend the Curry-Howard correspondence between proofs and programs, to Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and to build new models of ZF, called "realizability models". The structure of these models is, in general, much more complicated than that of the particular case of "forcing models". We show here that the class of constructible sets of any realizability model is an elementary extension of the constructibles of the ground model (a trivial fact in the case of forcing, since these classes are identical). It follows that Shoenfield absoluteness theorem applies to realizability models.