Alternating ultrapowers give isomorphic ultralimits

ID: alternating-ultrapowers-give-isomorphic-ultralimits

The Frayne embedding lemma embeds into an ultrapower of . Its relative version embeds into an ultrapower of , fixing the diagonal copy of . Continue alternately over the previously fixed elementary substructure. After coherent identifications one has , while each is an ultrapower of along its diagonal map, and similarly for . The two cofinal subsequences have the same elementary union. This proves the ultralimit assertion without the stronger single-ultrapower isomorphism theorem.

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