Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/iii/paper-19/6/ii/solution

Use -completeness in its usual forcing sense: every decreasing chain in a partial order of stronger conditions of length less than has a common stronger bound. Let and choose forcing that it functions the ground ordinal into the ground set . Below any stronger condition , recursively decide each value of in order. At a successor step the deciding conditions are dense, and at a limit stage use -completeness. After all steps take another common bound. The recursion and its choices can be performed in , using ground choice and closure, and it records a function in .
Thus below every stronger than there is a condition forcing for some ground . The set of such whole-function deciding conditions belongs to and is dense below . Genericity with makes meet : adjoin the conditions incompatible with to obtain a globally dense subset of a forcing order, and use directedness to rule out the incompatible alternative. A condition in then gives .
The reverse inclusion follows because ground functions remain functions with the same domain and values. Therefore
This closed forcing adds no short ground-valued sequences argument needs density of complete decisions. A single arbitrarily constructed lower bound need not belong to , and would not by itself prove the claim.

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