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A many permutation group result for unstable theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Mark D. Schlatter*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 63501, USA, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We extend Shelah's first many model result to show that an unstable theory has 2κ many non-permutation group isomorphic models of size κ, where κ is an uncountable regular cardinal.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1998

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