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Vaught's Conjecture for Monomorphic Theories

Logic 2018-12-07 v2

Abstract

A complete first order theory of a relational signature is called monomorphic iff all its models are monomorphic (i.e. have all the nn-element substructures isomorphic, for each positive integer nn). We show that a complete theory T{\mathcal T} having infinite models is monomorphic iff it has a countable monomorphic model and confirm the Vaught conjecture for monomorphic theories. More precisely, we prove that if T{\mathcal T} is a complete monomorphic theory having infinite models, then the number of its non-isomorphic countable models, I(T,ω)I({\mathcal T},\omega ), is either equal to 11 or to c{\mathfrak c}. In addition, I(T,ω)=1I({\mathcal T},\omega)= 1 iff some countable model of T{\mathcal T} is simply definable by an ω\omega-categorical linear order on its domain.

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@article{arxiv.1811.07210,
  title  = {Vaught's Conjecture for Monomorphic Theories},
  author = {Miloš S. Kurilić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.07210},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages

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