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Vaught's Two-Cardinal Theorem and Quasi-Minimality in Continuous Logic

Logic 2021-10-13 v2

Abstract

We prove the following continuous analogue of Vaught's Two-Cardinal Theorem: if for some κ>λ0\kappa>\lambda\geq \aleph_0, a continuous theory TT has a model with density character κ\kappa which has a definable subset of density character λ\lambda, then TT has a model with density character 1\aleph_1 which has a separable definable subset. We also show that if we assume that TT is ω\omega-stable, then if TT has a model of density character 1\aleph_1 with a separable definable set, then for any uncountable κ\kappa we can find a model of TT with density character κ\kappa 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 TT is uncountably categorical, then TT is ω\omega-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

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