On the structure of categorical abstract elementary classes with amalgamation
Logic
2016-02-18 v3
Abstract
For an abstract elementary class with amalgamation and no maximal models, we show that categoricity in a high-enough cardinal implies structural properties such as the uniqueness of limit models and the existence of good frames. This improves several classical results of Shelah. Let . If is categorical in a , then: 1) Whenever are such that and are limit over , we have . 2) If , the model of size is -saturated. 3) If and , then there exists a type-full good -frame with underlying class the saturated models in . Our main tool is the symmetry property of splitting (previously isolated by the first author). The key lemma deduces symmetry from failure of the order property.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.01488,
title = {On the structure of categorical abstract elementary classes with amalgamation},
author = {Monica M. VanDieren and Sebastien Vasey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01488},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
19 pages. This has since been merged with arXiv:1508.03252