Downward categoricity from a successor inside a good frame
Abstract
We use orthogonality calculus to prove a downward transfer from categoricity in a successor in abstract elementary classes (AECs) that have a good frame (a forking-like notion for types of singletons) on an interval of cardinals: Let be an AEC and let be cardinals. If has a type-full good -frame and is categorical in both and , then is categorical in all . We deduce improvements on the threshold of several categoricity transfers that do not mention frames. For example, the threshold in Shelah's transfer can be improved from to assuming that the AEC is -tame. The successor hypothesis can also be removed from Shelah's result by assuming in addition either that the AEC has primes over sets of the form or (using an unpublished claim of Shelah) that the weak generalized continuum hypothesis holds.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.03780,
title = {Downward categoricity from a successor inside a good frame},
author = {Sebastien Vasey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03780},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
63 pages. Was previously named "A downward categoricity transfer for tame abstract elementary classes"