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A Maximality Theorem for Continuous First Order Theories

Publication date: 28.11.2022

Reports on Mathematical Logic, 2022, Number 57, pp. 61-93

https://doi.org/10.4467/20842589RM.22.005.16662

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Nathanael Ackerman
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
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Mary Leah Karker
Providence College, Providence, RI 02918
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A Maximality Theorem for Continuous First Order Theories

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In this paper we prove a Lindström like theorem for the logic consisting of arbitrary Boolean combinations of first order sentences. Specifically we show the logic obtained by taking arbitrary, possibly infinite, Boolean combinations of first order sentences in countable languages is the unique maximal abstract logic which is closed under finitary Boolean operations, has occurrence number ω1, has the downward Lüowenheim-Skolem property to ωand the upward Lüowenheim-Skolem property to uncountability, and contains all complete first order theories in countable languages as sentences of the abstract logic. We will also show a similar result holds in the continuous logic framework of [5], i.e. we prove a Lindström like theorem for the abstract continuous logic consisting of Boolean combinations of first order closed conditions. Specifically we show the abstract continuous logic consisting of arbitrary Boolean combinations of closed conditions is the unique maximal abstract continuous logic which is closed under approximate isomorphisms on countable structures, is closed under finitary Boolean operations, has occurrence number ω1, has the downward Lüowenheim-Skolem property toω, the upward Lüowenheim-Skolem property to uncountability and contains all first order theories in countable languages as sentences of the abstract logic.

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Information: Reports on Mathematical Logic, 2022, Number 57, pp. 61-93

Article type: Original article

Authors

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Providence College, Providence, RI 02918

Published at: 28.11.2022

Received at: 21.10.2020

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY  licence icon

Percentage share of authors:

Nathanael Ackerman (Author) - 50%
Mary Leah Karker (Author) - 50%

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Continuous model theory, model theory of metric structures (03C66)
Abstract model theory (03C95)
Classical first-order logic (03B10)

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