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Generalised Indiscernibles, Dividing Lines, and Products of Structures

Logic 2024-08-13 v2

Abstract

Generalised indiscernibles highlight a strong link between model theory and structural Ramsey theory. In this paper, we use generalised indiscernibles as tools to prove results in both these areas. More precisely, we first show that a reduct of an ultrahomogenous 0\aleph_0-categorical structure which has higher arity than the original structure cannot be Ramsey. In particular, the only nontrivial Ramsey reduct of the generically ordered random kk-hypergraph is the linear order. We then turn our attention to model-theoretic dividing lines that are characterised by collapsing generalised indiscernibles, and prove, for these dividing lines, several transfer principles in (full and lexicographic) products of structures. As an application, we construct new algorithmically tame classes of graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2311.05996,
  title  = {Generalised Indiscernibles, Dividing Lines, and Products of Structures},
  author = {Nadav Meir and Aris Papadopoulos and Pierre Touchard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.05996},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

45 pages. Changes: fix of the proof of Theorem 3.3, and minor changes