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Between reduced powers and ultrapowers, II

Logic 2022-07-18 v4

Abstract

We prove that, consistently with ZFC, no ultraproduct of countably infinite (or separable metric, non-compact) structures is isomorphic to a reduced product of countable (or separable metric) structures associated to the Fr\'echet filter. Since such structures are countably saturated, the Continuum Hypothesis implies that they are isomorphic when elementarily equivalent.

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@article{arxiv.2011.07352,
  title  = {Between reduced powers and ultrapowers, II},
  author = {Ilijas Farah and Saharon Shelah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.07352},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages. Minor changes, gory details added to the proof of Lemma 2.1. To appear in TAMS

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