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The externally definable Ramsey property and fixed points on type spaces

Logic 2025-10-20 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

We discuss the externally definable Ramsey property, a weakening of the Ramsey property for ultrahomogeneous structures, where the only colourings considered are those that are externally definable: that is, definable with parameters in an elementary extension. We show a number of basic results analogous to the classical Ramsey theory, and show that, for an ultrahomogeneous structure M with countable age, the externally definable Ramsey property is equivalent to the dynamical statement that, for each natural number n, every subflow of the space of n-types with parameters in M has a fixed point. We discuss a range of examples, including results regarding the lexicographic product of structures.

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@article{arxiv.2309.06522,
  title  = {The externally definable Ramsey property and fixed points on type spaces},
  author = {Nadav Meir and Rob Sullivan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06522},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

final version: published in Arch. Math. Logic (2024)

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