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Some remarks on nonmultidimensional superstable theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Anand Pillay
Anand Pillay*
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Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 60556, E-mail: anand.pillay.l@nd.edu
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In this paper we study nonmultidimensional superstable theories T, possibly in an uncountable language, and develop some techniques permitting the generalisation of certain results from the finite rank (and/or countable language) context to the general case.

We prove, among other things, the following: there is a set A0 of parameters, which has cardinality at most ∣T∣, and in the finite-dimensional case is finite, such that over any B ⊇ A0 there is a locally atomic model. One of the consequences of this is that if C is the monster model of T, φ(x) is a formula over A0, φC ⊇ X and (X, φC) satisfies the Tarski-Vaught condition after adding names for A0, then there is an elementary substructure M of C containing A0 such that φM = X. Applications to the spectrum problem will appear in [Ch-P].

In fact, all the components of the machinery we develop are already present in the general theory. One such component involves a stratification of the regular types of T using a generalized notion of weakly minimal formula. This appears in [Sh, Chapter V and the proof of IX.2.4] and also in [P2]. A second component involves definable groups which arise as ‘binding” groups. The existence of such groups, under certain hypotheses on the behavior of nonorthogonality, is due to Hrushovski [Hr1], and our use of them to help obtain “j-constructible” models is similar to their use in [Bu-Sh].

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 151 - 165
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1994

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