Saturation of reduced products
Abstract
We study reduced products of countable structures in a countable language associated with the Fr\'echet ideal. We prove that such is -saturated if its theory is stable and not -saturated otherwise (regardless of whether the Continuum Hypothesis holds). This implies that is isomorphic to an ultrapower (associated with an ultrafilter on ) if its theory is stable, even if the CH fails. We also improve a result of Farah and Shelah and prove that there is a forcing extension in which such reduced product is isomorphic to an ultrapower if and only if the theory of is stable. All of these conclusions apply for reduced products associated with ideals or more general layered ideals. We also prove that a reduced product associated with the asymptotic density zero ideal , or any other analytic P-ideal that is not , is not even -saturated if its theory is unstable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.12539,
title = {Saturation of reduced products},
author = {Ben De Bondt and Ilijas Farah and Alessandro Vignati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.12539},
year = {2024}
}
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32 pages