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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2025
Lyubetsky and Kanovei showed in [8] that there is a second-order arithmetic model of $\mathrm {Z}_2^{-p}$, (comprehension for all second-order formulas without parameters), in which
$\Sigma ^1_2$-
$\mathrm {CA}$ (comprehension for all
$\Sigma ^1_2$-formulas with parameters) holds, but
$\Sigma ^1_4$-
$\mathrm {CA}$ fails. They asked whether there is a model of
$\mathrm {Z}_2^{-p}+\Sigma ^1_2$-
$\mathrm {CA}$ with the optimal failure of
$\Sigma ^1_3$-
$\mathrm {CA}$. We answer the question positively by constructing such a model in a forcing extension by a tree iteration of Jensen’s forcing. Let
$\mathrm {Coll}^{-p}$ be the parameter-free collection scheme for second-order formulas and let
$\mathrm {AC}^{-p}$ be the parameter-free choice scheme. We show that there is a model of
$\mathrm {Z}_2^{-p}+\mathrm { AC}^{-p}+\Sigma ^1_2$-
$\mathrm {CA}$ with a failure of
$\Sigma ^1_4$-
$\mathrm {CA}$. We also show that there is a model of
$\mathrm {Z}_2^{-p}+\mathrm {Coll}^{-p}+\Sigma ^1_2$-
$\mathrm {CA}$ with a failure of
$\Sigma ^1_4$-
$\mathrm {CA}$ and a failure of
$\mathrm {AC}^{-p}$, so that, in particular, the schemes
$\mathrm {Coll}^{-p}$ and
$\mathrm {AC}^{-p}$ are not equivalent over
$\mathrm {Z}_2^{-p}$.