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Stability results assuming tameness, monster model and continuity of nonsplitting

Logic 2022-02-15 v2

Abstract

Assuming the existence of a monster model, tameness and continuity of nonsplitting in an abstract elementary class (AEC), we extend known superstability results: let μ>LS(K)\mu>LS({\bf K}) be a regular stability cardinal and let χ\chi be the local character of μ\mu-nonsplitting. The following holds: 1. When μ\mu-nonforking is restricted to (μ,χ)(\mu,\geq\chi)-limit models ordered by universal extensions, it enjoys invariance, monotonicity, uniqueness, existence, extension and continuity. It also has local character χ\chi. This generalizes Vasey's result which assumed μ\mu-superstability to obtain same properties but with local character 0\aleph_0. 2. There is λ[μ,h(μ))\lambda\in[\mu,h(\mu)) such that if K{\bf K} is stable in every cardinal between μ\mu and λ\lambda, then K{\bf K} has μ\mu-symmetry while μ\mu-nonforking in (1) has symmetry. In this case (a) K{\bf K} has the uniqueness of (μ,χ)(\mu,\geq\chi)-limit models: if M1,M2M_1,M_2 are both (μ,χ)(\mu,\geq\chi)-limit over some M0KμM_0\in K_\mu, then M1M0M2M_1\cong_{M_0}M_2; (b) any increasing chain of μ+\mu^+-saturated models of length χ\geq\chi has a μ+\mu^+-saturated union. These generalize VanDieren-Vasey's result and remove the symmetry assumption in Boney-VanDieren and Vasey's result. Under (<μ)(<\mu)-tameness, the conclusions of (1), (2)(a)(b) are equivalent to K{\bf K} having the χ\chi-local character of μ\mu-nonsplitting. Grossberg and Vasey gave eventual superstability criteria for tame AECs with a monster model. We remove the high cardinal threshold and reduce the cardinal jump between equivalent superstability criteria. We also add two new superstability criteria to the list: a weaker version of solvability and the boundedness of the UU-rank.

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@article{arxiv.2112.01572,
  title  = {Stability results assuming tameness, monster model and continuity of nonsplitting},
  author = {Samson Leung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.01572},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

56 pages, typos corrected