Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-analytic-topology-and-axiomatic-set-theory-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/b/8/iv/solution

Use the constructible universe theorem that satisfies and GCH. In particular, internally it has a bijection
This bijection belongs to and is also an actual bijection in the ambient universe, because its domain, range and graph are transitive-model sets with the same membership relation.
We must compare the ordinals rather than assume cardinality is absolute. Every ordinal below is countable in , and its witnessing enumeration belongs to the ambient universe too. Thus every such ordinal is countable externally, proving . Consequently the ambient cardinality of the constructible reals is at most .
If every subset of were constructible, the displayed bijection would enumerate the full ambient power set using at most points. This contradicts the assumption . Therefore
The argument permits to be strictly smaller than the ambient , exactly the cardinal-absoluteness issue highlighted in the source.

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