Exact saturation in pseudo-elementary classes for simple and stable theories

Itay Kaplan, Nicholas Ramsey*, Saharon Shelah

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Abstract

We use exact saturation to study the complexity of unstable theories, showing that a variant of this notion called pseudo-elementary class (PC)-exact saturation meaningfully reflects combinatorial dividing lines. We study PC-exact saturation for stable and simple theories. Among other results, we show that PC-exact saturation characterizes the stability cardinals of size at least continuum of a countable stable theory and, additionally, that simple unstable theories have PC-exact saturation at singular cardinals satisfying mild set-theoretic hypotheses. This had previously been open even for the random graph. We characterize supersimplicity of countable theories in terms of having PC-exact saturation at singular cardinals of countable cofinality. We also consider the local analog of PC-exact saturation, showing that local PC-exact saturation for singular cardinals of countable cofinality characterizes supershort theories.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2250020
Pages (from-to)2250020:1-2250020:26
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of Mathematical Logic
Volume23
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2023

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Keywords

  • Simple theories
  • classification theory
  • exact saturation
  • stable theories

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