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Dependent measures in independent theories

Logic 2025-06-09 v4

Abstract

We introduce the notion of dependence, as a property of a Keisler measure, and generalize several results of [HPS13] on generically stable measures (in NIPNIP theories) to arbitrary theories. Among other things, we show that this notion is very natural and fundamental for several reasons: (i) all measures in NIPNIP theories are dependent, (ii) all types and all fimfim measures in any theory are dependent, and (iii) as a crucial result in measure theory, the Glivenko-Cantelli class of functions (formulas) is characterized by dependent measures.

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@article{arxiv.2109.11973,
  title  = {Dependent measures in independent theories},
  author = {Karim Khanaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11973},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

23 pages, to appear in the journal ZML: https://zml.international/about (In this version, some statements-- including Theorem 5.2 from the previous version-- that are equivalent to known results and have essentially standard proofs have been removed.)

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