Order-isomorphic Morass-definable $\eta_1$-orderings

Abstract

We prove that in the Cohen extension adding $\aleph_3$ generic reals to a model of $ZFC+CH$ containing a simplified $(\omega_1,2)$-morass, gap-2 morass-definable $\eta_1$-orderings with cardinality $\aleph_3$ are order-isomorphic. Hence it is consistent that the $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_3$ and that morass-definable $\eta_1$-orderings with cardinality of the continuum are order-isomorphic. We prove that there are ultrapowers of $\mathbb{R}$ over $\omega$ that are gap-2 morass-definable. The constructions use a simplified gap-2 morass, and commutativity with morass-maps and morass-embeddings, to extend a transfinite back-and-forth construction of order type $\omega_1$, to a function between objects of cardinality $\aleph_3$.