CEU eTD Collection (2012); Gyenis, Zalán: On finite categoricity

CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
Author Gyenis, Zalán
Title On finite categoricity
Summary In this work we are taking the first steps towards studying so called finitely categorical structures.
By a celebrated theorem of Morley, a structure $\cA$ is $\aleph_1$-categorical if and only if it is $\kappa$-categorical for all uncountable $\kappa$.
Our main goal is to examine finitary analogues of Morley's theorem. A model $\cA$ is defined to be finitely categorical (or $<\!\ omega$-categori cal) if for a large enough finite set $\Delta$ of formulas $\cA$ can have at most one $n$-element $\Delta$-elementary substructure for each natural number $n$.

We are going to investigate some conditions on $\aleph_1$-categorical structures which imply finite categoricity. Proving finite categoricity for certain $\aleph_1$-categorical structures can be considered as an extension of Morley's theorem ``all the way down''.
Supervisor Sági, Gábor
Department Mathematics PhD
Full texthttps://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/gyenis_zalan.pdf

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