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AN INVITATION TO MODEL THEORY AND C*-ALGEBRAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2019

MARTINO LUPINI
MARTINO LUPINI*
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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1200 EAST CALIFORNIA BOULEVARD, MAIL CODE 253-37 PASADENA, CA 91125, USA E-mail: lupini@caltech.eduURL: http://www.lupini.org/
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Abstract

We present an introductory survey to first order logic for metric structures and its applications to C*-algebras.

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Primary 03C0746L05Secondary 03C2046L35C*-algebrastrongly self-absorbingmodel theory for metric structuresultraproductultrapoweraxiomatizablemodel-theoretic forcingbuilding models by gamesomitting types
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 34 - 100
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