Toward classifying unstable theories

dc.creatorShelah, Saharon
dc.date1995-08-15
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dc.descriptionThe paper deals with two issues: the existence of universal models of a theory T and related properties when cardinal arithmetic does not give this existence offhand. In the first section we prove that simple theories (e.g., theories without the tree property, a class properly containing the stable theories) behaves ``better'' than theories with the strict order property, by criterion from [Sh:457]. In the second section we introduce properties SOP_n such that the strict order property implies SOP_{n+1}, which implies SOP_n, which in turn implies the tree property. Now SOP_4 already implies non-existence of universal models in cases where earlier the strict order property was needed, and SOP_3 implies maximality in the Keisler order, again improving an earlier result which had used the strict order property.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9508205
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9508205
dc.identifierAnn. Pure Appl. Logic 80 (1995), 229--255
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/152998
dc.subjectLogic
dc.titleToward classifying unstable theories
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