Vaught's Two-Cardinal Theorem and Quasi-Minimality in Continuous Logic
Abstract
We prove the following continuous analogue of Vaught's Two-Cardinal Theorem: if for some , a continuous theory has a model with density character which has a definable subset of density character , then has a model with density character which has a separable definable subset. We also show that if we assume that is -stable, then if has a model of density character with a separable definable set, then for any uncountable we can find a model of with density character which has a separable definable subset. In order to prove this, we develop an approximate notion of quasi-minimality for the continuous setting. We apply these results to show a continuous version of the forward direction of the Baldwin-Lachlan characterization of uncountable categoricity: if a continuous theory is uncountably categorical, then is -stable and has no Vaughtian pairs.
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@article{arxiv.1710.05809,
title = {Vaught's Two-Cardinal Theorem and Quasi-Minimality in Continuous Logic},
author = {Victoria Noquez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05809},
year = {2021}
}
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21 pages