Abstract

We demonstrate that the special model axiom SMA of Ross admits a natural formalization in Kawai's nonstandard set theory KST but is independent of KST. As an application of our methods to classical model theory, we present a short proof of the consistency (with ZFC) of the existence of a k+ like k-saturated model of PA for a given cardinal k.

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