An alternative proof of the ultralimits theorem.
We define a recursive theory which axiomatizes a class of models of IΔ₀ + Ω ₃ + ¬ exp all of which share two features: firstly, the set of Δ₀ definable elements of the model is majorized by the set of elements definable by Δ₀ formulae of fixed complexity; secondly, Σ₁ truth about the model is recursively reducible to the set of true Σ₁ formulae of fixed complexity.
We show that for no infinite group the class of abelian-by- groups is elementary, but, at least when is an infinite elementary abelian -group (with prime), the class of groups admitting a normal abelian subgroup whose quotient group is elementarily equivalent to is elementary.
Some basic ideas of model theory are presented and a personal outlook on its perspectives is given.
In this paper we introduce a new invariant for extensions of difference fields, the distant degree, and discuss its properties.
Given a topological space ⟨X,⟩ ∈ M, an elementary submodel of set theory, we define to be X ∩ M with topology generated by . Suppose is homeomorphic to the irrationals; must ? We have partial results. We also answer a question of Gruenhage by showing that if is homeomorphic to the “Long Cantor Set”, then .
We present an example of an o-minimal structure which does not admit cellular decomposition. To this end, we construct a function whose germ at the origin admits a representative for each integer , but no representative. A number theoretic condition on the coefficients of the Taylor series of then insures the quasianalyticity of some differential algebras induced by . The o-minimality of the structure generated by is deduced from this quasianalyticity property.
For a vector field ξ on ℝ² we construct, under certain assumptions on ξ, an ordered model-theoretic structure associated to the flow of ξ. We do this in such a way that the set of all limit cycles of ξ is represented by a definable set. This allows us to give two restatements of Dulac’s Problem for ξ - that is, the question whether ξ has finitely many limit cycles-in model-theoretic terms, one involving the recently developed notion of -rank and the other involving the notion of o-minimality.