SB-property on metric structures
Abstract
A complete theory has the Schr\"oder-Bernstein property or simply the SB-property if any pair of elementarily bi-embeddable models are isomorphic. This property has been studied in the discrete first-order setting and can be seen as a first step towards classification theory. This paper deals with the SB-property on continuous theories. Examples of complete continuous theories that have this property include Hilbert spaces and any completion of the theory of probability algebras. We also study a weaker notion, the SB-property up to perturbations. This property holds if any two elementarily bi-embeddable models are isomorphic up to perturbations. We prove that the theory of Hilbert spaces expanded with a bounded self-adjoint operator has the SB-property up to perturbations of the operator and that the theory of atomless probability algebras with a generic automorphism have the SB-property up to perturbations of the automorphism. We also study how the SB-property behaves with respect to randomizations. Finally we prove, in the continuous setting, that if is a strictly stable theory then does not have the SB-property.
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@article{arxiv.2302.01220,
title = {SB-property on metric structures},
author = {Camilo Argoty and Alexander Berenstein and Nicolas Cuervo Ovalle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01220},
year = {2024}
}