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The Scott rank of Polish metric spaces

Metric Geometry 2019-06-04 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We study the usual notion of Scott rank but in the setting of Polish metric spaces. The signature consists of distance relations: for each rational q>0q > 0, there is a relation R<q(x,y)R_{<q}(x,y) stating that the distance of xx and yy is less than qq. We show that compact spaces have Scott rank at most ω\omega, and that there are discrete ultrametric spaces of arbitrarily high countable Scott rank.

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@article{arxiv.1906.00351,
  title  = {The Scott rank of Polish metric spaces},
  author = {Sy Friedman and Katia Fokina and Martin Koerwien and Andre Nies},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.00351},
  year   = {2019}
}