English

Neostability in countable homogeneous metric spaces

Logic 2018-07-17 v4

Abstract

Given a countable, totally ordered commutative monoid R=(R,,,0)\mathcal{R}=(R,\oplus,\leq,0), with least element 00, there is a countable, universal and ultrahomogeneous metric space UR\mathcal{U}_\mathcal{R} with distances in R\mathcal{R}. We refer to this space as the R\mathcal{R}-Urysohn space, and consider the theory of UR\mathcal{U}_\mathcal{R} in a binary relational language of distance inequalities. This setting encompasses many classical structures of varying model theoretic complexity, including the rational Urysohn space, the free nthn^{\text{th}} roots of the complete graph (e.g. the random graph when n=2n=2), and theories of refining equivalence relations (viewed as ultrametric spaces). We characterize model theoretic properties of Th(UR)\text{Th}(\mathcal{U}_\mathcal{R}) by algebraic properties of R\mathcal{R}, many of which are first-order in the language of ordered monoids. This includes stability, simplicity, and Shelah's SOPn_n-hierarchy. Using the submonoid of idempotents in R\mathcal{R}, we also characterize superstability, supersimplicity, and weak elimination of imaginaries. Finally, we give necessary conditions for elimination of hyperimaginaries, which further develops previous work of Casanovas and Wagner.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.02427,
  title  = {Neostability in countable homogeneous metric spaces},
  author = {Gabriel Conant},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.02427},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

32 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-22T09:13:44.679Z