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Approximate Categoricity in Continuous Logic

Logic 2020-11-03 v1

Abstract

We explore approximate categoricity in the context of distortion systems, introduced in our previous paper, which are a mild generalization of perturbation systems, introduced by Ben Yaacov. We extend Ben Yaacov's Ryll-Nardzewski style characterization of separably approximately categorical theories from the context of perturbation systems to that of distortion systems. We also make progress towards an analog of Morley's theorem for inseparable approximate categoricity, showing that if there is some uncountable cardinal κ\kappa such that every model of size κ\kappa is 'approximately saturated,' in the appropriate sense, then the same is true for all uncountable cardinalities. Finally we present some examples of these phenomena and highlight an apparent interaction between ordinary separable categoricity and inseparable approximate categoricity.

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@article{arxiv.2011.00589,
  title  = {Approximate Categoricity in Continuous Logic},
  author = {James Hanson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00589},
  year   = {2020}
}

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28 pages

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