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Downward categoricity from a successor inside a good frame

Logic 2016-12-22 v6

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: Theorem\mathbf{Theorem} Let KK be an AEC and let LS(K)λ<θ\text{LS} (K) \le \lambda < \theta be cardinals. If KK has a type-full good [λ,θ][\lambda, \theta]-frame and KK is categorical in both λ\lambda and θ+\theta^+, then KK is categorical in all λ[λ,θ]\lambda' \in [\lambda, \theta]. 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 (2LS(K))+\beth_{\beth_{\left(2^{\text{LS} (K)}\right)^+}} to (2LS(K))+\beth_{\left(2^{\text{LS} (K)}\right)^+} assuming that the AEC is LS(K)\text{LS} (K)-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result by assuming in addition either that the AEC has primes over sets of the form M{a}M \cup \{a\} or (using an unpublished claim of Shelah) that the weak generalized continuum hypothesis holds.

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@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"

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