Properly ergodic structures
Abstract
We consider ergodic -invariant probability measures on the space of -structures with domain (for a countable relational language), and call such a measure a properly ergodic structure when no isomorphism class of structures is assigned measure . We characterize those theories in countable fragments of for which there is a properly ergodic structure concentrated on the models of the theory. We show that for a countable fragment of the almost-sure -theory of a properly ergodic structure has continuum-many models (an analogue of Vaught's Conjecture in this context), but its full almost-sure -theory has no models. We also show that, for an -theory , if there is some properly ergodic structure that concentrates on the class of models of , then there are continuum-many such properly ergodic structures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.09336,
title = {Properly ergodic structures},
author = {Nathanael Ackerman and Cameron Freer and Alex Kruckman and Rehana Patel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09336},
year = {2017}
}
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41 pages