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An abstract elementary class non-axiomatizable in $L_{(\infty,\kappa)}$

Category Theory 2020-05-11 v2 Logic

Abstract

We show that for any uncountable cardinal λ\lambda, the category of sets of cardinality at least λ\lambda and monomorphisms between them cannot appear as the category of point of a topos, in particular is not the category of models of a L(,ω)L_{(\infty,\omega)}-theory. More generally we show that for any regular cardinal κ<λ\kappa < \lambda it is neither the category of κ\kappa-points of a κ\kappa-topos, in particular, not the category of models of a L(,κ)L_{(\infty,\kappa)}-theory. The proof relies on the construction of a categorified version of the Scott topology, which constitute a left adjoint to the functor sending any topos to its category of points and the computation of this left adjoint evaluated on the category of sets of cardinality at least λ\lambda and monomorphisms between them. The same techniques also applies to a few other categories. At least to the category of vector spaces of with bounded below dimension and the category of algebraic closed fields of fixed characteristic with bounded below transcendence degree.

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@article{arxiv.1812.00652,
  title  = {An abstract elementary class non-axiomatizable in $L_{(\infty,\kappa)}$},
  author = {Simon Henry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.00652},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Published in Journal of Symbolic Logic. 13 pages

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