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Trivial Isomorphisms between Reduced Products

Logic 2024-10-30 v6

Abstract

We introduce a general method for showing under weak forcing axioms that reduced products of countable models of a theory TT have as few automorphisms as possible. We show that such forcing axioms imply that reduced products of countably infinite or finite fields, linear orders, trees, or random graphs have only trivial automorphisms. We also show that Todor\v{c}evi\'c's Open Colouring Axiom, OCAT\mathsf{OCA}_{\mathrm{T}}, implies that all automorphisms of P(N)/Fin\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N})/{\mathrm{Fin}} are trivial.

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@article{arxiv.2307.06731,
  title  = {Trivial Isomorphisms between Reduced Products},
  author = {Ben De Bondt and Ilijas Farah and Alessandro Vignati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06731},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

44 pages. Correction and simplifications in Section 5 (in particular Proposition 5.6), other minor corrections and improvements

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