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Dividing Lines between Positive Theories

Logic 2026-02-11 v3

Abstract

We give definitions of the properties OP, IP, kk-TP, TP1_1, kk-TP2_2, SOP1_1, SOP2_2 and SOP3_3 in positive logic, and prove various implications and equivalences between them. We also provide a characterisation of stability in positive logic in analogy with the one in full first-order logic, both on the level of formulas and on the level of theories. For simple theories there are the classically equivalent definitions of not having TP and dividing having local character, which we prove to be equivalent in positive logic as well. Finally, we show that a thick theory TT has OP iff it has IP or SOP1_1 and that TT has TP iff it has SOP1_1 or TP2_2, analogous to the well-known results in full first-order logic where SOP1_1 is replaced by SOP in the former and by TP1_1 in the latter. Our proofs of these final two theorems are new and make use of Kim-independence.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2304.07557,
  title  = {Dividing Lines between Positive Theories},
  author = {Anna Dmitrieva and Francesco Gallinaro and Mark Kamsma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07557},
  year   = {2026}
}

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23 pages

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